The advancement of final exams and the closing of evaluation records for first-year Baccalaureate has altered the end of the school year in the Balearic Islands' high schools and has opened a growing debate among teachers, families, and students about the real meaning of June now. The decision by the Department of Education—which sets the closing of ordinary grades before June 5 and keeps classes until the 19th—aimed to reorganize the calendar, advance retakes, and dedicate the following weeks to both supporting students with pending subjects and maintaining teaching activity with approved students. However, on the ground, the majority perception is different: absenteeism has soared and effective learning time has been lost.

Teachers in public schools in the Balearic Islands will not finally have days of free disposal – known as personal days

UOB Ensenyament has demanded the resignation of the Director General of Teaching Staff, Joana Maria Cabrer, for her management of the Sectoral Table of Education (MSE). In a statement, the union assures that "the state in which the Sectoral Table of Education currently finds itself is deplorable" and states that, during the last session convened, on June 1, it became clear that the representatives of the Ministry of Education and Universities "give no value to the Table, to the contributions and demands of the unions and, by extension, to the demands of the workers".

More than two hundred people mobilized this Wednesday to demand the construction of a new center for CEIPIEEM Son Serra, in a protest called by the parents' association (AFA) to demand a public and scheduled commitment from the Ministry of Education.

A substitute teacher at the Llorenç Garcias i Font institute in Artà, Mallorca, has been arrested by the Civil Guard for alleged touching of a minor student who was in her fourth year of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) and has been suspended by the Ministry of Education until the end of the school year.

The families of CEIP Son Pisá have expressed their “deep concern” about the incorporation to the center of Miquel Roldán, the Mallorcan teacher judicially convicted of harassing a minor, a situation that, they assure, has generated “alarm and unease” within the educational community.

A race against time to get a spot. This is how urgent procedures for substitutions with interim teachers in the Balearic Islands, a system in which merits are no longer a priority: you have to be the first to click on the position as soon as it is posted. The dynamic highlights the tension in the system after that in the last procedure, opened from April 14 to 16, 114 positions were offered that could not be filled by interim teachers who met all the requirements, such as the teaching master's degree and the Catalan language level. This academic year, 644 interim teachers are teaching without having accredited the required Catalan language level according to data from the Ministry of Education, which does not specify the stages or levels affected. This figure triples that of 2022.

The educational centers of the Balearic Islands have been facing serious problems since the beginning of the year with Llull, the new educational management tool promoted by the Ministry of Education. The system, which will progressively replace GestIB, has been awarded for 5.4 million euros to the multinational Ayesa and has a clear origin: it is the same software used by the Junta de Andalucía, from whom it has been 'copied'. In fact, the implementation itself has evidenced this dependence on the base model, to the point of bizarre situations: "One day I was in Llull, I clicked on validate and sign invoice and a tab from the Junta de Andalucía opened up for me," explains the director of a center in western Mallorca.

There are moments in the day that define a town or city. In the mornings, when thousands of children and teenagers fill the streets on their way to school, they offer the truest reflection of our urban and educational model. Because school is not just a building: it is community, neighborhood, and equal opportunity. Now, the Regional Ministry of Education, controlled by the People's Party (PP) and supported by Vox, wants to dismantle this fundamental pillar of our society with a shocking lack of justification and recklessness. The proposal for a single school zone is not simply an administrative matter, but a direct threat to the true equity of the system.

A total of 1,434 teachers have applied to participate in the competitive examination for teaching positions in the Balearic Islands, which will be held on May 9th and 10th. According to a statement from the Ministry of Education and Universities, 1,066 applicants have applied in Mallorca; 75 in Menorca; 281 in Ibiza; and a dozen in Formentera. These figures represent an increase compared to last year, when 1,290 applications were received.

The Independent, Autonomous, and Unitary Union (SIAU) filed a request this Saturday with the Ministry of Labor, Civil Service, and Social Dialogue to initiate disciplinary proceedings against two department heads at the General Directorate of Teaching Personnel and State-Assisted Schools. The union accuses those responsible of violating the principles of equality, merit, and ability in the recent allocation of positions to temporary teachers.