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Educational community , is the most responsible thing that can be done in defense of public education against the irresponsibility of the Community of Madrid. The prolonged deterioration of the educational system The process of deterioration of the educational system in Spain goes back a long way, many years before the outbreak of Covid-, and does not translate exclusively into a problem of preventing infections, even though the urgent and priority thing is to ensure the protection of the whole of the educational community against the risks of contagion and new outbreaks. This deterioration is a direct consequence of the insufficiency and continuous decline since in the budgetary resources dedicated to education, as can be seen in the evolution of official data from the Ministry of Education reflected in the following graph.
The apparent improvement in educational expenses in the period - is a statistical mirage that did not imply an increase in public spending, but rather the sharp decline in GDP in a period in which the Spanish economy suffered a double AOL Email List recession. As of , despite the relatively strong GDP growth, the percentage of public spending on education with respect to GDP continues to decline and moves away from the % it started in , reaching in (the year of the Montoro budgets that have been extended until this year ) that minimum %. education graph Just as interesting as seeing the decline in public spending on education is seeing the evolution of that public spending that is directly allocated to financing private companies and centers through concerts and subsidies that have experienced continuous growth since.

Both in percentage of GDP and in euros ( see Chart ), without the global financial crisis that broke out in and the two subsequent recessions having had significant effects on this trend. education graph Starting in , when the second recession ended and a new phase of recovery began, the diversion of a growing part of the public budget towards private education intensified again . Thus, to the reduction in public spending on education we must add the growing portion of public money allocated to private education, which results in greater cuts in the financing received by public education. And to this deterioration caused by the continuous cuts we must add the efforts made by the PP, especially by its Madrid branch, to satisfy its political friends from the private education employers' association who, in addition to their interest in expanding the business and maintaining With public funds to thousands of priests and nuns, they seek to expand their ideological and religious influence on a greater number of students and their families.
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