Bill to create the High Educational Inspection Corps

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1. The bill would create a State High Educational Inspection Corps, made up of civil servants, so the State can monitor compliance with its powers over education in the autonomous communities.
2. Its duties would include checking that common curricula and textbooks are taught as required, guaranteeing equality and language rights, ensuring ideological neutrality in schools, and issuing a public annual report on education in each community.
3. If it finds a violation, it would draw up a report and send it to the Minister of Education and the Government Delegate. If the autonomous community does not fix the problem, the Ministry could strip the affected studies of official status and deny the corresponding degrees.
4. Its civil servants would have the status of public authority and could visit schools at any time and request information from education authorities.
5. Entry to the corps would be through a merit-and-exam contest open to civil servants with experience (education inspectors, teaching corps, or A1 group, with at least ten years of service). The staff would include at least one hundred career civil servants.
6. The Head of High Educational Inspection would be appointed by the Council of Ministers for a five-year term and could only be removed for specific reasons. The annual report would go to the Spanish Parliament, which could request the Head's appearance.

Who it affects

• Schools and teachers: Could face inspections at any time and be checked on common curricula and ideological neutrality.
• Autonomous communities: Would be subject to State oversight in education and could be formally required to correct violations.
• Education inspectors and teaching corps civil servants: Would be the main groups eligible to join the new corps through the merit-and-exam contest.
• Students and families: Would see guaranteed equality in education, language rights, and teaching free of indoctrination.

Words worth knowing

Alta Inspección Educativa

A State body that monitors whether the autonomous communities comply with basic education rules.

Concurso-oposición

A Spanish civil service entrance system combining an assessment of the candidate's merits (concurso) and exams (oposición).

Autoridad pública

Legal status that lets officials demand cooperation from other authorities and give official force to their actions.

Currículo

The set of contents, goals, and subjects taught at each stage of education.

Proposición de ley

A bill introduced by a parliamentary group that still must be debated and passed by the Congress of Deputies (Congreso de los Diputados).

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