Almost 800 Catalan educational centers are mobilizing to suspend outings and camps next year as a measure of “pressure given the situation of the public system.” In total, 783 primary and secondary schools and institutes have joined a campaign that has been disseminated among families through a communication letter and a page web in which they demand a “dignified and quality public education.” The initiative began at the end of February, with an initial implementation limited to a few dozen schools and institutes, and has spread rapidly throughout the territory. The mobilization coincides with a climate of growing unrest in the sector, which faces five consecutive weeks of strike called by the main unions, as well as criticism of the deployment of the Mossos d’Esquadra in educational centers within a pilot project promoted by the Department of Education of the Generalitat.
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