Education Minister Anna Simo promised yesterday that there would be “structural changes” in the education system following poor results in basic skills tests and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) report. He confirmed this during his intervention in Parliament, the day before holding a summit with all parliamentary blocs to address this problem, and demanded that “the thousandth meeting not be without results.” Simo stressed that “we are ready to take measures to achieve results in the short, medium and long term” and that the system can be improved “quickly” if priority is given to combating school segregation and child poverty. In this sense, he noted that they were beginning to see “green shoots” in improving equity, but again admitted that the results of the PISA report were “bad.”
The counselor began her intervention by recalling the results of the basic skills tests and the PISA tests and emphasized that the factor that “determines” the students’ results is the social and economic level of their families. The reason why Simo proposed focusing on school segregation and child poverty. Regarding improving equity in the system, that is, in reducing differences in students’ performance depending on their socio-economic level, Simo said that this is an indication that the charter against apartheid in schools “little by little” is giving results. He also indicated that he is working to establish an agency Evaluation, and in the interventions of the opposition groups, they rebuked Simo for not making profound changes to address this “crisis” situation in the education sector. Elia Tortolero chose to restore the daily six-hour teaching hour in the public school that had been canceled due to the cuts. “We have always been firm advocates of the six-hour . “We will continue to defend it,” he said in a press conference. He stated that they would attend the summit “with the will to help” and “to make contributions.” For his part, Junts spokesman Josep Ríos noted that the summit “cannot be a mere declaration of good intentions,” but rather “must allow the thread to be put on the needle” through “concrete measures, budgets and timetable” to “reverse the trend of the latest reports.” Program for International Student Assessment. Elsewhere, a delegation of members of the European Parliament is visiting Catalonia to analyze language immersion there (more information on page 20).
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