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Madrid schools to gain more leeway to address classroom conflicts
Madrid is preparing a decree to speed up responses to school conflicts. Each centre will be able to expand the standard list of minor offences. The regulation will also cover behaviour outside the classroom and on social media. It could come into effect during the 2027/28 school year.
The new decree provides for a minimum catalogue of offences and corrective measures for schools.
Minor offences currently depend on the rules of coexistence of each centre. The new decree seeks to establish a common minimum so that teachers and management teams can respond more quickly.
The Regional Minister for Education, Ciencia y Universidades, Mercedes Zarzalejo, announced the initiative at a meeting with the media. The Comunidad de Madrid will urgently process the Decreto de Convivencia Escolar y Autoridad del Profesor, which could come into force in the 2027/28 academic year. Before then, schools and institutes would have time to adapt their internal rules and provide guidance and training to their teams.
The text will define minor, serious and very serious offences, as well as the applicable corrective measures. The classification will cover lesson hours and extracurricular activities. It will also include complementary services and transport, and will cover conduct outside school premises and on social networks.
Zarzalejo explained that each centre currently regulates minor offences according to its own rules. The decree will set a minimum catalogue, which centres can expand to reflect their social reality. The Regional Minister believes that this common basis will give families a shared reference point regarding offences and their corrective measures.
In another area of public services in the region, the Comunidad de Madrid has also detailed the continuation of resources for people with disabilities in this service review.
The proposal develops what is set out in Law 2/2010, of 15 June, with the aim of strengthening the authority of teaching staff and guaranteeing the right to education. The national catalogue would set a common starting point for schools. Its implementation would leave room for each school to include offences in line with its own reality. It could come into force in the 2027/28 academic year.