Since Madrid President Isabel Díaz Ayuso came to power in 2019, she inherited the drowning and has sold the small budget increases as “historic.” On Tuesday, an agreement was closed with the rectors that was less generous than it seemed – the 14.8 billion is actually 9,000 when concepts are removed, according to the calculations of the platforms of the Universidad X la Pública – and full of questions, because only a confusing press release has emerged. The opposition and the platforms for public schools did not doubt these days that the pact would be a fact before this Thursday Isabel Díaz Ayuso appears at her own request to explain why it has changed
Viciana is a member of the clan of the pocholosa group of inexperienced and reactionary officials who, from June 2023 until last month, managed the 7,000 million because their leader, . This newspaper revealed their existence in November, although they have become famous after their departure. Algarra is credited with the controversial and intrusive draft bill on higher education law (Lesuc) that has fallen with the pocholos or an attempt to stop bilingualism in Madrid classrooms.
Ayuso will try this Thursday in the Assembly to distance himself from Algarra, the subject of many jokes in the media these days, and about whom he wrote in 2019: “Antonio, you are the king. We love you.” In a writing from that year, the playwright remembers how their close relationship was forged: “I met my friend Isabel Díaz Ayuso when I was preparing the campaign for [Cristina] Cifuentes in the networks [2014 ó 2015]. He had great success with practically no means or support. In our first meeting I told him everything I thought about the PP’s errors.”
“Faced with my avalanche of reproaches, which, as everyone who knows me knows, is harsh and profound, Isa reacted by listening, as few listen anymore. She didn’t have to listen to me, but she did so with true attention (…)”, continues the text that Algarra posted on the social network “Friend, continue being that, even if you think differently.” So friends that he gave him full powers in the Ministry of Education and these are some of his excesses.
More children with autism in class, without teachers
In the 2023/2024 academic year, with classes starting, a resolution came to the centers that had not passed either the sectoral table or the unions. Five students with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) would be enrolled per classroom, and specialized teachers, who only work in ASD classrooms, could cover absences in the center. The parents of these students collected thousands of signatures against the measure and, again, the Community took a step back in June 2024 and left it without effect. Viciana reported that same day that she would embed one, taking away space from the public institute.
Contempt for 170 million from the Ministry of Science
The university powers are transferred, but the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities launched a program in 2024, the María Goyri, to co-finance with the communities 5,600 positions for doctoral assistant professors for six years, with the regional commitment to make these researchers permanent afterwards. The PP communities gladly accepted a very favorable pact. Although at first they pretended to be dissatisfied to try to get the State to pay 100%,
Viciana called the pact “blackmail” and “a cacicada” and refused to sign it. Minister Diana, the Madrid rectors recalled that they were drowning and, Now they co-finance 1,091 places: the State contributes 169.8 million and the Community 112.3. Morant took revenge, in which he stuck to his guns: “Pedro Sánchez invites and the communities pay. It’s blackmail.”
The Minister of Education of the CM will be a career civil servant, but he does not defend the public. He is dedicated to dismantling and mistreating it. It is the essential requirement to work for you, Mrs. Ayuso.
Today’s success is that, despite what she says, she has been forced to sign…
— Diana Morant (@DianaMorantR)
Millionaire sanctions for students
The first versions of the draft of the Madrid higher education law (Lesuc), written following the guidelines of Castillo Algarra, for protesting on campuses. “Very serious” infractions, vaguely stated, and freedom on campus. Among the “minor” infractions, there was a penalty of up to 15,000 for putting up an unauthorized banner. Four legal experts consulted described the project as “nonsense”, since it invaded the powers of the State and entered into “a matter already regulated.”
The president reacted angrily in X to a . “This news is false,” he said. The counselor, for his part, published a video that did not deny it. In versions.
250 doctoral students without a scholarship, due to poor forecasts
(29.1 million in 2025) for 250 researchers to work for four years in . The intention is for the call to be approved at the beginning of 2027 and have better conditions. And, furthermore, the department explains, this is how those who finish their doctoral courses in June will be able to present. If the mess is not fixed, chaos will result. Well, they are going to cast the predoctoral papers of two classes and the oldest ones with the desperation of having been waiting for an eternity. The Community has saved 29 million, but the question is: will the pocholos Did they want to cut expenses or have they not been able to manage changes in the bases in time? More Madrid is going to try to get Zarzalejo to reverse this situation, but there are many fronts to close.
