No 487
Monday, 16th September, 2013
Tel: 96 673 0057
BACK TO SCHOOL WITH A BANG
As the gloomy faces of children marks the return to school for the next academic year, the unfair imbalance of investment becomes even clearer to see than ever before, with some 7,489 students in primary education in Orihuela, and 6,271 in Torrevieja. With cuts affecting education across the whole country, we
are aware of the limited budget available to the regional education authority, under the control of the Partido Popular, and, for whatever the reason, we are already aware that PP run Torrevieja has benefitted from being one of the few municipalities to receive a hefty amount of money, whereas in Orihuela, the local government which is led by a bi-party coalition of the PSOE and Los Verdes have not been so lucky, with many students returning to portacabin classrooms, where entire generations have spent the most important part of their early learning experiences.
In his usual start of term announcement the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dol贸n from the PP, said that he was particularly delighted at the continued reduction in class sizes which once again would be well below the Ministry of Education recommendation of 30 students per class, as the average number of pupils in classrooms in Torrevieja is 25 pupils per teacher. Dol贸n made his statement about class sizes whilst visiting the C.P. Acequi贸n school, on their first day back in term, when he said that the current class size in Torrevieja averContinued on Page 2