The trustee of the PSPV in Les Corts, Rebeca Torró, and the former regional Secretary of Education Miquel Soler have accused Minister José Antonio Rovira (PP) of committing a “witch hunt” by announcing that he will take the “abandonment of ” from his job as heads of the Ministry of Education before the teaching award process for the 2023-2024 academic year, which was delayed for more than two weeks due to computer errors.
At a press conference, Soler has defended that the senior officials who Rovira accused of having left their post just before the procedure left “all the work done” before the end of July, when they ceased, and are “hyper-involved people” and recognized by the unions. Therefore, he has rejected the “lies” and “personal attacks” of the new minister, which he sees as an excuse for his “lack of foresight” and collaboration with the previous team and his “sectarianism and arrogance” .
This has been stated after a meeting with the teacher unions on the awards, a process in which he has warned that “the errors continue.” Rovira appeared last week to ensure that the failures occurred because his predecessors had neither tested nor updated the program to carry out this year’s “extraordinary” process, which incorporated the stabilization of templates and the integration of FP technicians in Secondary.
On the other hand, Soler has guaranteed that these novelties had been prepared since September last year, in contact with the Ministry, and has rejected the minister’s statement that the high participation in this year’s awards had anything to do with it. “In 46 years working in education, I had not seen such a disaster,” he asserted, and has once again attributed it to the dismissal of some 300 technical teacher advisors when Rovira’s team joined, who “have not yet received any official communication” and “Some of them already had their lives organized.”
For his part, the trustee of Compromís, Joan Baldoví, has registered the creation of an investigation commission in Les Corts Valencianes to clarify what have been the reasons that have caused the chaos in the process of awarding teaching positions for the 2023 academic year- 2024.
The coalition has explained this Tuesday that it wants to know if the criteria established in the regulations have been respected or if there has been some type of manual manipulation of the lists provided by the computer software and any other extreme related to the delay in the resolution of the incidents produced.
Baldoví considered that in just a few months the PP and Vox have ended the prestige of a Ministry that was the “spearhead” of the Valencian government.
“Two days after the entry of thousands of teachers into their schools, incidents are still being resolved at the most chaotic start to the course in history. And before this, instead of acknowledging the errors, the PP and Vox government has shaken responsibility with excuses of low payer”, he indicated.
The PP’s Education spokesperson, Beatriz Gascó, has responded to the criticism of the PSPV and Compromís, stating that her parliamentary group “is going to demonstrate in Les Corts the lack of planning, neglect of functions, zero management and the multitude of errors committed by the Botánic in the process of adjudication” of places for teachers. In his opinion, “Compromís and the PSPV-PSOE put the fan on to cover up their mismanagement in the process of adjudication of places.”
“In addition, a technical report from the General Directorate of Technologies indicates that the platform has not been tested or updated and has not had the relevant quality reports. This is a technical statement. Mr. Soler goes against the officials he claims to defend. The platform has not worked, in addition to being obsolete, because they did not introduce the new teacher procedures, ”he added.
