The Navarrese Government will withdraw public funds from secondary schools that separate by sex | Education

The Navarrese Department of Education has confirmed through the Educational Inspection reports that the Fomento Miravalles-El Redín and Irabia-Izaga schools have returned to breach the Lomloe by keeping its students separated by sex in the Secondary Education stage. For this reason, the regional government will withdraw subsidies from segregation institutes.

State law determines that, if a facility divides by sex, cannot receive public funding. The Minister of Education, Carlos Gimeno, has confirmed that he is going to begin the administrative procedure to deny public funds to these centers, a process similar to that carried out in the rest of the educational stages (with the exception of Infants, where there are already classrooms mixed).

“In the coming days, the department is going to transfer the minutes that we have received from the Educational Inspection Service to the centers that practice differentiated education and we will wait for their responses with the allegations to, once again, send them another resolution with the decision that the department establishes in this case,” the Minister of Education detailed to this newspaper.

Gimeno was cautious at first, but this Tuesday he confirmed in a parliamentary appearance that these differentiated education centers “have not used the co-educational principle” in Secondary. In other words, they have not mixed the students in the classrooms and have broken the commitment sine qua non to receive money from the Administration. They had already done it in 2020, by failing to comply with the educational agreement signed for Primary and in 2021 in Baccalaureate. This 2023, when renewing the Secondary School concert, which affects minors between 12 and 16 years old, they promised to mix the students and they have not done so. SER Navarra already announced on September 8 that, on the first day of class in El Redín, where only boys study, there were no girls, and that, in Miravalles, where the opposite situation occurs, there were no boys from this age group. age.

In the rest of the stages, the conclusions of these processes have been different. On the one hand, in Baccalaureate, the Government determined the suppression of the concert as of August 31 of this year, but the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra determined that, despite the fact that these centers had failed to comply with the agreement, the department had to continue covering the cost of this stage in a “precautionary” manner until deciding whether the Desegregation in these two courses should be done or not in a phased manner.

The court has forced Education to subsidize the cost of the two courses of the post-compulsory stage, but, at the same time, has imposed a guarantee on the schools to cover this expense in the event that they end up supporting the decision of the regional Executive. once the course has started. The Government of Navarra has appealed against this resolution, appealing, among other arguments, to the fact that a few weeks earlier – on June 6 – the Constitutional Court declared the question of unconstitutionality raised by the same Superior Court of Justice “notoriously unfounded”.

However, in Primary “the concerts were extinguished, but there was a Government agreement to make a progressive extinction.” This legal mechanism of progressive suppression can only be applied in Navarra due to the validity of Foral Law 17/2012, which establishes that educational agreements with centers that segregate their students by sex “may be extended by reasoned agreement of the Government of Navarra for the sole purpose of guaranteeing the continuity of the students currently enrolled in these centers until the completion of the mandatory educational stages.” This provision was promoted by IU and approved in 2012, when Yolanda Barcina (UPN) was president.

The Chivite Executive has maintained public financing to these centers with the condition that they continue to mix their students in a staggered manner – there are now mixed classrooms in first, second and third grade. In this way, we wanted to guarantee that students who were enrolled before the approval of the LOMLOE in the segregation model can continue in it until they move on to Secondary School. As arguments in favor of this measure, the impossibility of relocating all minors whose families could not or did not want to pay the new fees to other centers was put forward, and to allow students who began their studies in these centers under certain conditions to (free registration and separation by sex) could end the stage in the same way.

Now, with the failure to comply with the educational agreement in Secondary, the forecast is that the same thing will happen as in Primary because it is also a mandatory educational stage. A possibility that Gimeno does not rule out, although, he concludes, “we will see if an agreement can be transferred to the Government Council.”

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