The Valencian directors of public schools and institutes have agreed this Monday in an assembly that they will resign en masse if the Generalitat does not reach an agreement with the teachers, who have played a leading role. The decision, which has the support of the three regional associations of directors of public centers, will be taken, they have indicated, en bloc throughout the week. The teaching unions meet this Monday afternoon with those responsible for the Ministry of Education to negotiate with the distant positions.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Department of Education of the Valencian Generalitat has improved the offer of salary increases to Valencian teachers. If the last proposal, which the educational unions rejected as “laughable”, was from , this Monday the counselor Carmen Ortí, of the PP, has offered them an increase of 120 euros in the specific regional supplement: 60 euros would be paid in January 2027 and the same amount in July of the same year.
Last week ended with one in Valencia in support of the indefinite strike called by the main public education unions: STEPV, CC OO, ANPE, UGT and CSIF. And it has begun with a meeting of directors in Picanya (Valencia) which they have attended, in person or onlinenearly a thousand directors and which has concluded with a resignation agreement that threatens to plunge the end of the course of the Valencian public education system even further into chaos.
The scenario thus increasingly resembles that of Asturias, where, which included strikes, resignations of management teams and lockdowns in schools, ended a year ago with the resignation of the Minister of Education and with a broad agreement for improvements in teaching.
The union representatives have arrived at the headquarters of the ministry accompanied by hundreds of teachers. Their claims include a long list of claims, among them, a reduction in the ratio of students per class, the reinforcement of staff to address the diversity of the student body, investments in educational infrastructure and a change in the regulations that regulate teaching in Valencian.
The proposal that the Generalitat has presented to the unions is similar, in terms of the number of students per class, to the one it already presented on Thursday, but Education has added a calendar. Next year, the maximum ratio in the second cycle of Preschool would be reduced to 22 students (now there are 25 and the unions are asking for 15), and “at least the one set” by the Ministry of Education in Primary.
This ratio, in the bill that the Government has submitted to Congress, stands at 22 (now it is 25), but the approval of said norm is by no means guaranteed, since the Executive would need either the support of the entire investiture bloc or that of the Popular Party (assuming that Vox will not support it).
In Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), the Generalitat also refers to applying the ministerial ratio (which, if the law is approved, would become 25, instead of the current 30) in the 2028-2029 academic year. And the reduction in Baccalaureate, also referenced to what the ministry dictates (which in this case has not included it in the law, but is left for regulatory development), would not arrive until the 2029-2030 academic year.
The Consell’s offer to deactivate the strike also includes a pilot plan in which each center would be assigned between one and one additional teacher as a stable resource for “early replacement” in the event of sick leave. And, regarding the status of Valencian in the classrooms ―which has lost weight as a result of a law approved by the PP and Vox last year―, the only new thing is that the homologation of training in Valencian can be done by collaborating entities.
The proposal, transferred to the outside of the meeting room by the unions through their official channels, has been received by the teachers gathered in the counseling room with cries of “shame” and “counselor, resign.”
