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Catalan Education Ministry Strengthens Schools Legal Measures For Catalan Language

The Minister of Culture, Natalia Garriga, speaks during the 'Proleg de Sant Jordi 2023', at the Palau de la Generalitat, on 17 April 2023 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The Education's ministry school's language regime decree also lays down that teachers who access the temporary teachers' pool or apply for the 2025-2026 academic year's competitive examinations must have the C2 level in Catalan.DAVID ZORRAKINO/EUROPA PRESS VIA GETTY IMAGES.

The Catalan Education ministry will manage the language projects of educational centres. This was announced on Monday by Anna Simó, Catalan minister of Education, who pointed out that in the face of the far-right reactionary wave it is necessary to “rearticulate a model of defence of the Catalan school”. The plan was presented this Monday, to protect the Catalan language in the classrooms.

 “The aim of the decree is to make the Catalan language the axis from which the educational projects of the centres are articulated and to deploy the second title of the Catalan Educational Law (LEC). The decree’s public information process begun this Monday, and will be extended until September 15th “so that everyone can make their contributions and leave a robust and consensual text,” said the Catalan Mininster

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