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Madrid reinforces Bachillerato classrooms ahead of the education strike
The Comunidad de Madrid will change the minimum service requirements for the education strike and reinforce those for Segundo de Bachillerato ahead of the PAU. The strike has been called after 395 hours of lost classes, while the committee is demanding negotiations over its demands.
The indefinite strike in Education has already resulted in 395 hours of lost classes among schoolchildren in Madrid. The Comunidad de Madrid plans to modify the minimum service order and especially strengthen those for Segundo de Bachillerato, where students are preparing for the PAU.
The Minister of Education, Mercedes Zarzalejo, announced the change.
The strike committee for non-university public education questions the timing chosen to discuss these services. The unions and organisations that make up the committee received a call for Friday, 13 November at 15:00, via videoconference, with the modification of minimum services as the only item on the agenda. The presence of teachers in other protests was seen during the march to Callao during the general strike.
The committee maintains that the meeting does not address their request to negotiate the demands that sparked the conflict. It also comes after the announcement of tougher minimum service requirements and measures to remove posters and banners supporting the strike.
When the new order is published, its members will request urgent precautionary measures to suspend it and will expand their appeal against the previous minimums, which they have already challenged as "abusive".