The Prime Minister urges support for two laws to improve reading comprehension following poor PISA report results. He also announced progress on housing and the publication of reports on the Ceuta crisis.
The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, defended on Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies the need to approve two bills to strengthen reading comprehension among young people, after the latest PISA report from the OECD reflected "extraordinary concern in all Western countries and also in Spain," as he admitted during the control session.
In response to a question from the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Sánchez called for the Chamber's support for the regulation that reduces the maximum number of students per classroom and for the organic law that raises the minimum age for registering on social media to 16. "They are fundamental to reinforce reading comprehension among young people," he emphasised, and reminded that their processing "does not correspond solely to the Executive, but also to the General Courts."
The President highlighted that the investment from the Ministry of Education has doubled to exceed "6 billion euros," and that scholarships and study aids have a budget that has grown by "more than 1 billion euros" to "guarantee equal opportunities." Additionally, he indicated that more than 400 million euros have been allocated to territorial cooperation programmes with the autonomous communities to strengthen reading comprehension and mathematics.
In response to the ERC deputy Gabriel Rufián, Sánchez assured that the Executive's roadmap involves "continuing to advance" in housing. He pointed out that the autonomous communities already have 1 billion euros of the 7 billion planned in the State Housing Plan to promote the construction of protected housing, and recalled the mobilisation of another 173 million euros for university residences, in partnership with CRUE.
In front of the Vox deputy Santiago Abascal, the head of the Executive reiterated the decision to "publish all reports from July 1 to August 1 on the Ceuta crisis," as agreed by the Council of Ministers in its meeting on September 8.
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