Spanish in schools: election candidates pressed to act

Spanish in schools across Spain: Escuela de Todos is pressing every candidate for prime minister to promise that it will be used to teach at every stage of education. The demand comes in letters ahead of the 29 November general election, according to a report from Madrid on 11 November. The group says other official languages should be able to serve as teaching languages in their own territories too.

The letters set out four demands. Alongside the pledge on schooling, the group wants a nationwide law protecting equal language rights. It also calls for checks and penalties where authorities ignore court rulings without justification, and an end to unjustified language requirements that block access to civil service jobs.

Escuela de Todos says the election is a chance to address a basic concern: people’s language rights should not depend on which autonomous community they live in. It has made a further request of People’s Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo. If his party forms a government, it wants a national policy on the issue within its first 100 days.

Topics: Education

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com