SPAIN: CATALONIA TO LIMIT IMMIGRANT STUDENTS IN CLASSROOMS
(ANSAmed) - MADRID, APRIL 28 - The regional government of
Catalonia has set a limit for the number of immigrant students
in the classrooms of state-run schools and private centres, to
avoid that the presence of foreign students, prevailing in
state-run schools, might give rise to ghettoes.
The measure is part of the bill of educational law of
Catalonia, promoted by the regional three-party government and
presented today to the media by education councillor Ernest
Maragall.
The regional law bill envisages also the setting up of an
agency for the evaluation of the teachers, sets up new
management formulas for the school centres and allows the
schools to elaborate their own academic curriculum.
It also envisages a commitment to increase the resources
destined to education, in order to reach the average amount of
investments of the other European countries.
The law, for which the approval process in the regional
Parliament is envisaged to be finalised by 2008, will enter
into force in 2009. (ANSAmed).
2008-04-28 19:44