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Councillor for Education was appearing before the media yesterday, to explain the project to reuse textbooks, recently launched by the city of Jumilla, and respond well to any of the claims made by the Federation of Parents and Mothers of Jumilla, this initiative.
Alicia explained Abellan in the current budget, the government team looked this year, a new batch of 15,000 euros, dedicated to the implementation of a reuse project textbooks locally, with which encourage establishment of book banks in the various schools of Jumilla.
As collected on the bases, the subsidy for the purchase of textbooks go for the purchase of books of 3rd and / or 5th grade, because they are the courses which are modified with the new education law, as Councillor nuance, "the City can not claim to cover all the textbooks, because in education, has no power to it."
In April the first meeting with the Federation of Associations of Parents of Jumilla, where the initiative was raised and a draft of what would be the bases had remained.
After this first contact, the FAMP presented a letter indicating some of the issues that could be modified bases.
As explained yesterday the Councillor for Education, on the one hand, the Federation requested no students have to choose between 3 ° or 5 °, to which the mayor replied that it is a decision motivated by the changes proposed by the new law Education that will affect these two courses, and that the game does not give to cover all levels.
On the proposal to change the method of distribution, Alicia Abellan explained that then would go from 47 euros per student to very small amounts per student so could not even meet with a book per student.
About include teachers in the Monitoring Committee, the Councillor said is they who decide which books are used, hence the need for their involvement in the project.
Moreover, he added that it was not possible to consider the proposal FAMP about opening a second call but the deadlines are depleted, as it is not legally possible.
About endowment per student increase from 40 to 50 euros, after a reset of the game, the councilor said not reach 50 euros but at least each student is very close to 47 euros, thus ensuring, for chooses a course book.
Also on the proposal that made the FAMP exclude grant those students whose parents are not in the Associations, said "that money of all, you can not limit access to some of the students who are not part of the Associations, as it is a subsidy that triggers the City. "
Finally, on the continuity of the project, said that the Department can make a commitment as part of it, so at least for the 2015-2016 course, was guaranteed.
After pooling these considerations with the president of the FAMP, May 19 bases in BORM were published, however, as Alicia Abellan nuance, once published the notice and with two days to conluyera within the Federation had another letter indicating that it had not taken into account the considerations and therefore would welcome not to grant.
Alicia Abellan, emphasized in conclusion, "it was a very positive initiative, which was seen as a first step towards the creation of future book banks" and stressed that "the Department will remain open to sharing initiatives the project succeed. "
Moreover, Alicia Abellan stressed that Jumilla, with Torre Pacheco, are the only two municipalities in 45 of the region that have a similar for promoting reuse books project, and that items of this neighboring town will range between 10,000 and 20,000 euros, so said "if Jumilla, in his first call allocates more than 15,000 is a positive initiative that should have gone ahead and remain confident in that."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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