The Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, has announced that the Government will subsidize school transport for charter schools starting this school year. This year, the line of grants will be released in November. He did so during the presentation of the Catholic School year, the majority association of charter education in the Islands, at an event where the minister heaped praise on this educational model and claimed its role within the Balearic educational system.

The call driven by GOB to demand fair school transport fares has already garnered the support of more than a hundred educational centers in Mallorca, Menorca, and Eivissa, and more than a dozen associations of principals, families, and unions, in a context marked by tourist pressure, which makes travel more expensive to the point of making it unaffordable for many centers and pushes some companies to stop offering this service as it is considered less profitable. The result is that there are students who never leave their municipality, because they depend on the school to do so and to see the world. Adhesions have been incorporated in recent days and demonstrate the growing scope of a problem that has been affecting the entire educational community for years.