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In order to strengthen the attention to relevant educational services in rural and marginalized communities of Sonora, the Ministry of Education and Culture has developed several programs to benefit this sector of the population, said the head of the agency, Jorge Luis Ibarra Medieval.

The state official emphasized that through the General Coordination of Compensatory Programs have been allocated around 50 million pesos to benefit 77, 101 basic education students studying in 1, 222 schools in the state.

Medieval Ibarra explained that the actions implemented during the 2011-2012 school year have focused on improving school infrastructure, equipment of schools, teacher training and advice, financial support to parents and strengthening of educational services.

“Every effort and investment by the state government in education contributes to higher learning achievement of children and young people living in remote communities, which were left behind educationally historic way,” he said.

In this situation, reiterated the commitment of the Governor of Sonora, Guillermo Padres Elias, to meet the educational needs of the Sonorant region regardless of where they live and the difficulties that surround them.

The Secretary of Education and Culture, stressed the importance of developing a cooperative and solidarity among municipal, state and federal agencies to remove the educational backwardness of these communities.

“Our state has successfully implemented various strategies under the comprehensive reforms to basic education and other actions that correspond to the Alliance for Quality Education, with the active participation of teachers, administrators, officials and union representatives,” he said.

As promised, and here is the article on education, but gives the impression that more than one is not going to like where the shots go, but the harsh reality.

This article is the country’s digital and seen firsthand what is happening, this distant Canary in principle these problems, although there is a tense calm, very tense.

Five Stroke education teachers in a classroom of Public Vocational Training Institute of San Blas in Madrid, strive to balance the schedule for the course is about to begin. But the numbers do not come; the center will have to settle for 61 teachers, 10 fewer than last year, which will result in classes of 40 students and the loss of school guidance department. The specialty of these five teachers, automotive, teaching them to play two and a half less. Meetings like this, of snorts and heads scratch for the umpteenth time in search of a solution to end in subtraction sums that are being repeated in hundreds of staff rooms, but also in offices of public administrations in Spain in the middle of an economic crisis so severe that two irreconcilable political enemies as the PP and the PSOE just move forward, together, make a constitutional amendment to limit government borrowing has not had the support of other political formations.

The cuts were finally come when the terrible lowering dropout rates in Spain.

“Now we have more students than ever, we do not have enough teachers,” complained a high school principal.

the risk of recession, the financial situation may be worse yet, fly over the Spanish crisis as communities continue to look for where to put the following snip. There have been million in cuts in other areas, especially in investment, infrastructure and personnel. He has also played to health care in some communities. And education has not been delivered, several autonomous regions have tried to open the melon and the fear is that it can be just the beginning. At one point, also in increasing the students and wounded a system which could be finally showing some green shoots. The drop, though it remains a very serious problem last year dropped to the lowest they’ve seen the statistics.

“If you’re in another profession and cannot do your job because you do it as the product comes out and maybe worse. But before we have kids, not tractors, “says Rafael Herrera, a professor of history at the public institute Las Americas, Parlay, an industrial town south of Madrid, which will lose 11 teachers. Herrera swears, as have many teachers and unions in recent days that their protest is not about having to give two hours of class or receivable less (teachers, as all staff have lost 5 % on average), but because their students will suffer and with them, eventually, the country’s future. ”Now the problem is how we explain this to the neighbor, who is unemployed and see me complaining, my regular job.”

The unions are rebelling against the reduction of temporary teachers in Madrid, Catalonia, Castillo-La Mancha, Galicia and Navarra, estimated at about 8,200 (about 4.5% of public school teachers in these regions). The debate has deflected many twists in recent days: labor demands of teachers, accusations of lack of commitment in times of great difficulties, the discussion about whether it is better to spend over spending more on the need imperiosade cut public spending in general … But ultimately, the key question is simple: Spain can afford to work less in education?

Juan Manuel Moreno, Senior Education Advisor of the World Bank points out that, in times of crisis, traditionally the rich (individuals, families, countries) do not spend less, but something else while the poor lower the rate, which ultimately when it comes to economic recovery, increases the differences between them.

And Spain is not part of a good position. The OECD PISA report, which examines the 15-year olds in 66 countries, draws a system in mediocrity. The investment has not accompanied it has always been below the European average and those other countries with which it intends compared. In addition, every step back is a drag for long. Spain has taken 16 years to regain the public effort in 1993 that earmarked for education, understood as a percentage of GDP devoted to it. Reached a similar effort in 2009, in fact, slightly higher: 5.03%. But it was brief and the following year dropped again and will again in this, to stay at 4.79%, as projected by the Ministry of Education.

Once again history repeats itself, but aggravated. The first, now the crisis is much worse. The decline in gross domestic product of Spain in 2009, 3.7%, was the largest recorded since 1971. In fact, the total public expenditure on education, hard cash to put all government each year in the area has been reduced, something that had not happened, despite the fluctuations of GDP, at least in the past 30. That is less money (1.5% less in two years) for students, 320,000 more than last two years, reaching 7.9 million students account for non-university education.

Things go awry when the school system just seemed to have “reached a cruising speed” in the tortuous path of improvement, according to Juan Manuel Moreno, World Bank education expert. The image might be a cyclist, a little Fond on, who faces a steep climb without the best bike on the market, but which nevertheless had managed to finally get some momentum on their way to the goal. And just then forced him to stop.

Young people leaving the books after compulsory education, most of them without the most basic title, are less than ever. Thus, the hole that has crushed the image of Spanish education for years, according to the OECD that it hampers the Spanish economy and is one of the main causes of massive youth unemployment (46%), has become a little less deep.

Kids who drop out of school before getting a bachelor’s degree or are still many FP: 28.4%, almost twice the EU average, and are light years ahead of students who do the same in France ( 12.8%) and Germany (11.9%). Moreover, this improvement may be closely related to the fact that no work for many young people and less for those without any preparation. However, there are those who see that change-for example, a sociologist at Completeness Enguita Mariano Fernandez-”some lights at the end of the tunnel.”