Oviedo (EFE).- The Asturian Government will not sign or renew from the next academic year the agreements with private schools that ignore the principle of coeducation and segregate students by sex in application of the new educational law, a decision that is situated in the line of the one announced on January 30 by the Ministry of Education of Navarra.
In this way, this requirement will be inexcusable for the start of the first year of Infant and Primary, which means the start of schooling, and a maximum period of one year will be granted for adaptation in the rest of the levels, as shown in the resolution proposal that establishes the procedure that will regulate educational concerts between 2023 and 2029.
The text, which has been released today for public information, refers in its preamble to the provision of the Organic Law of Education that alludes to the promotion of effective equality between men and women in all centers supported totally or partially with public funds.
The regulations indicate that the principle of coeducation must be implemented at all stages and “not separate students by gender” and regulates this principle of effective equality in article 3.6, in which it clarifies that it will not be appropriate to renew or sign concerts with centers that do not comply with this requirement and also establishes the obligation of the owners of the schools to present a responsible declaration in which the obligation not to segregate based on gender is assumed.
The resolution of the Principality regulates the constitution of the commission in charge of carrying out the subsequent subscription and renewal proposal of the center-to-center agreements and states that the signed agreements may be modified during the six-year period due to the alteration of the number of units, due to schooling needs or other circumstances of the centers.
In the 2018/2019 academic year, the number of private schools that still segregated students based on sex in Spain was 87, two of them in Asturias, most of them Christian-inspired or directly belonging to entities linked to the Catholic Church especially Opus Dei. EFE