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The socialist mayor Susana Hernández defend a motion in full this month calling for the creation of a municipal fund to subsidize those Associations of Parents of the municipality to put in place initiatives to recycle textbooks.
Likewise, Hernandez asked the local government to urge the Ministry of Education to implement the free provision of textbooks in the Region of Murcia as a measure of support for families.
In this sense, the PSOE Councillor stresses that the next school year start in September in a context of severe economic hardship for many families in the municipality facing the 'back to school' with many expenses, school supplies, uniforms, books text, among others.
Also, remember to Hernandez, this course, mothers and fathers find that the principal had help with that, the bonus book, has been eliminated by the Ministry of Education in its policy of cutbacks, which has led to a marked decrease the budget for the purchase of books, from 23.8 million euros in the previous year to 8.5 million during 2011 to 2012 (of which half come from the central government), down 65 percent .
"Clearly this school year hundreds of families will have to juggle economic to get their children to come to class with all their school supplies ready," Hernandez ends.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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