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The councilor of the Municipal Socialist Group in the city of Murcia, Susana Hernandez, reiterated the demand of the PSOE to the Ministry of Education and the City of Murcia that no child start the school year without textbooks or without the necessary equipment.

Hernandez, in charge of monitoring the area of ​​education, will ask the Consistory Murcia to urge the Autonomous Community to increase the budgetary allocation for fellowships and book bases are modified so that more families have access to such aid for books and school supplies.

"Currently only families that are virtually in a situation of poverty have access to grants when there are thousands of families who survive on a minimum subsidy or with insufficient social benefits and can not afford to buy textbooks for their children. These families should have access to grants and scholarships for their children do not go to school without books. "

"And thanks to the LOMCE, many parents of students in the second, fourth and sixth grade, are forced to purchase new books when they have no way of dealing with this investment, which is a big outlay for families, especially for those who are going through difficult and precarious situations, "stated the socialist mayor, who has also demanded that the City of Murcia to help the AMPA and management teams of schools and institutes of Secondary Education to set up banks book.

"It's not difficult, other municipalities and cities have implemented successfully. In Javalí Viejo, where the Municipal Board chaired by the PSOE has led to this measure, it has made parents pay less than 50 euros by textbooks. It is a matter of political will and of having clear what should be the priorities when investing and budget. The saving excuse used by the regional government is just that, an excuse, "said Susana Hernandez.

"In early August, and we ask the City Council and the Ministry of Education were put in place so that there were children who had to start the course with empty backpacks recalled the concejala- The course is already underway and we know that there Students without books. What are you waiting local and regional government to provide a solution to this problem is repeated every year? "

The Municipal Socialist Group presented on September 24 in the regular plenary a motion in which he asked the City of Murcia to urge the regional government to put in place, facing the course from 2015 to 2016, a new call for scholarships the adquiisión textbook, at least at the stage of compulsory education.

Source: PSOE Murcia