Alfonso Fernández Mañueco is the only president of a community in which the PP governs with Vox who has come to campaign in Catalonia. He did it today, together with Alejandro Fernández, with a very specific objective: to contrast the educational model of Castilla y León, which obtained the best results in the PISA report, with the Catalan system, with poor scores in these tests. The Castilian-Leonese president has put the focus of “guilt” on the process and on the independence governments with the premise, broadly speaking, of “fewer embassies and more money for education.” In the words of the Catalan candidate, less ideology in the classrooms and more effort.
In this context, both the Catalan candidate and Mañueco wanted to point out that it is possible to combine management with less tax burden and greater investment in education. The PP has thus said that in comparative terms the investment in education with respect to GDP is higher in Castilla y León than in Catalonia. The results of the 2022 PISA report, which were released last December, generated an arduous debate in the educational community and in Parliament since it was the second autonomous region that lost the highest score in mathematics, only behind Melilla. Decreasing scores in the other two competencies evaluated: reading comprehension and science.
For this reason, Alejandro Fernández has taken the opportunity to present the PP program on education together with Mañueco and to denounce, first of all, that the "worsening" is due to the fact that the "national construction project of the separatists takes precedence over the student". In Castilla y León, according to the candidate's story, “there is no ideological manipulation that contaminates the school debate.”
The popular ones have outlined the main programmatic axes, starting with “the recovery of the authority of the teacher.” Likewise, Alejandro Fernández has explained that parents' freedom of choice of the educational model is advocated and they are committed to trilingual education. He has also defended the “culture of effort” and made reference to the “school reinforcement” model that was launched in Castilla y León with good results.
