Note from CCOO:
The Federation of CCOO RM Education regrets that the award of "The Land of Students", held at the headquarters of El Pais, in Madrid, in which third-prize winners were students and teachers at the school " Salvador Sandoval "Las Torres de Cotillas, had no representation from the Ministry of Education and Employment of Murcia, one of the few communities whose education policy-makers did not attend the event.
However, sources in El Pais said they were repeatedly contacted the Ministry of Education to a representative just to attend this awards ceremony.
The news is just that ten students of the IES Salvador Sandoval have been worthy of the third prize at the VIII edition of the national competition involving over 2000 schools in the country and approximately 45,000 pupils with their teachers responsible .
This institute has been involved since the beginning of this press-school program, has been a finalist six times, and finally was this course when it has been awarded more significantly, by working closely with local issues reflected in editing, as well as the deal with the issue of immigration, as was noted by the deputy director of El País, José Manuel Calvo.
From FE CCOO consider that the Department is not sincere when he defends the participation in programs and projects of educational innovation as a cornerstone of the quality of education in our schools, when it is unable even to symbolically ratify their support for our students and teachers that are meant in those programs.
Would someone from the Ministry attended, if the prize had been called, for instance, on ABC, Reason, or The World?
Paradoxically it is the case that the former Director, Mr. Medina Precious he did attend to the delivery of last year to deliver a prize to a winner of Alicante, a fact which was reflected in the educational portal "EDUCARM", while by day Today has not been echoed by the news.
Finally, from CCOO we must thank this center, students and teachers, while we feel the insensitivity of the Ministry towards this type of experience so positive for our students.
Source: CCOO Región de Murcia