Spanish school students' union

Sindicato de Estudiantes
Formation1986
Headquartersc\Hermanos del Moral 33 bajo A, 28019 Madrid
Membership20 000[1]
Key people
Tohil Delgado, President Ana Garcia, General Secretary
Websitewww.sindicatodeestudiantes.net

The Spanish school students' union is a student organization in Spain. It organises students in compulsory secondary education, baccalaureate, professional and university education; both public and private. It has about 20,000 members and has 3 of the 8 student representatives in the State School Board.[2] It was founded in 1986 by members of the organization currently called Izquierda Revolucionaria.[3] Its legal status comes from Organic Law of Education of the Organic Law of the Right to Education.[4]

Privatisation

Ana Garcia has blamed privatisation for the spread of corruption in the university sector.[5]

Misogyny

The union called a student strike on 10 May 2018 in protest against what it saw as the sexism of the judiciary in the La Manada sexual abuse case[6]

References

  1. ^ El Sindicato de Estudiantes convoca una huelga general en secundaria para el próximo 7 de marzo por Marta Aguirre Gómezcorta y publicado en El País el 8 de febrero de 2002. Comprobado el 17 de marzo de 2013.
  2. ^ "8 representantes del alumnado - Consejo escolar del estado - Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte". mecd.gob.es. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  3. ^ de Manresa, R.I. (2003). La premsa trotskista (1939-2000): catàleg de les publicacions periòdiques trotskistes a les biblioteques catalanes. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions. p. 30. ISBN 9788449023057. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  4. ^ "BOE.es - Documento BOE-A-2006-7899". boe.es. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  5. ^ "El Sindicato de Estudiantes convoca una huelga general en secundaria para el próximo 7 de marzo - Edición impresa". EL PAÍS. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  6. ^ "El Sindicato de Estudiantes convoca huelga hoy para protestar contra la "escandalosa sentencia" de 'La Manada'". europapress.es. Retrieved 2018-09-24.