Logroño, Feb 27 (EFE).- The Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, has defended this Monday the commitment of the Government of Spain for public education, which gives access to all and with equal opportunities, “for which means are needed and resources, such as improving scholarships and support and reinforcement plans for students”.
Alegría has reopened the Sagasta Secondary Education Institute in Logroño, after comprehensive reform works carried out for almost four years, in which 22.6 million euros have been invested.
The President of the La Rioja Government, Concha Andreu; the mayor of Logroño, Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza; the director of the institute, Carlos Jiménez, and teachers and students of the center, which this year will celebrate its 180th anniversary.
The minister has influenced the “symbolic value” that this project has in the Andreu legislature in his “commitment to public education and the value of public services”, which means “improving the quality of life of the citizens to whom It represents”.
In addition, it has expressed the support of the Government of Spain towards Vocational Training and has advanced that the next course will be offered in this institute two new cycles of higher degree of these studies.
Andreu recalled that “there is no investment with a greater return for society than the resources we allocate to education.”
He added that, “in the corridors and classrooms, in the library, in the patios and on the famous stairs of this institute, the best future for La Rioja is built, with strong foundations.”
The La Rioja president specified that this building, which opened its doors in 1843 for 85 students, has been a “direct witness” to the history of Logroño for 180 years, during which 25,000 students have been trained.
The director of the institute has had a special memory for his predecessor, Alberto Abad, who left office to assume the General Directorate of Educational Innovation of the Government of La Rioja, and who “put great will, determination and stubbornness” so that this comprehensive reform get ahead.
The teacher María Soledad Lázaro, dean of the 109 teachers, and the student Ivan Biryukov, who has transferred the interest of the thousand colleagues to take care of “so incredible” spaces, also took part in the act.
The Sagasta Institute, the only one in Logroño until 1971, is one of the 56 centennial centers in Spain. It has a library with 40,000 copies, a large assembly hall, historical laboratories and some archaeological remains of the Carlist wall that appeared during the works have been integrated. EFE
