Focus on Spanish education and Spanish investment immigration: According to the website of the Spanish newspaper El País on the 25th, the National Platform for Public Schools organized a shutdown protest across the entire Spanish education system this afternoon to defend public education, oppose education budget cuts, and protest the Draft Law for the Improvement of Educational Quality (LOMCE).
Platform sources confirmed that this activity will take place during school hours and is likely to continue until the end of this weekend.
This demonstration is one of the initiatives against the Law for the Improvement of Educational Quality and education budget cuts. A major strike involving students, teachers, parents, and other members of the education system is also scheduled for May 9th.
The Spanish Confederation of Associations of Parents of Students (CEAPA) stated that the protest at its headquarters in Puerta del Sol will take place next Friday and will continue through the weekend. The Students' Union indicated that it will support the demonstrations organized by CEAPA, as well as the student shutdown protests.
It was learned this Wednesday that the unified shutdown time for various institutions in Zaragoza is 17:30, at Las Canteras Square in the Torrero district. This Saturday, the Canary Islands Teachers' Union (STEC) expressed its encouragement for various educational units to organize shutdown protests.
In the Seville region (southern Spain), approximately 40 union representatives from the UGT and CCOO unions of Andalusia demonstrated yesterday inside the headquarters of the Department of Education to protest against education budget cuts and the payment of additional out-of-pocket expenses, but were ultimately forced to continue their protest in front of the Department of Education building.
In addition, the Balearic Institute of Home Economics requested yesterday that the municipal government prevent today's demonstrations by the education system and institutions to defend public schools, considering the protest activity to be illegal.