This power point was made by teacher Ana Gomez

1. 12 yellow roses
for Mr Blackberry Spring

2. Free education for 0-3 year olds
• The provision of free
school places for
children aged 0-3 for
2009-2010. (Really
free, not nominally
free, as in subsidised
schools)

3. Language teaching for 4-5 year olds
300 foreign language
teaching posts to allow
effective foreign
language instruction at
the beginning of next
academic year for all
four and five year old
children.

4. New “schools map”
• A new “schools map”
that will reflect the
changing needs of our
education system.
• This map should be
negotiated with
parents, teachers and
everyone
involved before next
academic year.

5. Teacher Training Programmes
• Proper, updated,
teacher training
programmes to replace
the 1997 ones,
especially for
Valencian-medium
schools due to the
scarcity of properly
qualified staff.

6. Fairness and diversity
• Catering for special
needs kids and
newcomers in all
government-funded
centres.
• A regulatory body to
guarantee fair
allocation and
registration
procedures.

7. Truly trilingual
• Measures to ensure
that students are
competent in the two
official languages as
well as at least a
foreign one at the end
of their compulsory
schooling .

8. Help the dropouts
• Design, execution and
evaluation of much
needed programmes to
curb our alarming
school dropout rates.

9. Our future workers
• Specific incentives for
our alternative
Secondary Education
schools (Professional
Formation) to qualify
future workers of an
important part of our
economy and social
development.

10. Independent Inspectors
• Immediate dismissal
of politically-
appointed inspectors
and aides.
• Establishment of a
new, fair and
accountable
recruitment system
which will regulate
access in terms of
equality, merit and

11. Democratic directing boards
• The firm commitment
on the part of the
education authorities
to stop partisan
performance aimed at
controlling school
directing boards .

12. Citizenship in its own right
•
The immediate
withdrawal of the
bizarre “Citizenship
in English” plan and
all related measures
enforced against
teaching staff or
boards of directors.

13. Grants and scholarships
• A wide array of
scholarships and
grants to cover lunch,
transport and
schooling expenses in
order to ensure that no
child is left out
throughout their
compulsory education.