Education Plans to Increase Teaching Staff by 150 in New Staffing Order

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities, and Employment has published the new teaching staff agreement, which it claims "strengthens the Early Childhood stage and promotes school autonomy." The plan will result in an increase of around 150 teachers compared to the current academic year.

This is highlighted by the department led by José Antonio Rovira after the Official Gazette of the Valencian Government (DOGV) published Order 9/2025, which regulates the criteria for determining the teaching staff at public schools owned by the Generalitat that offer non-university education in the Valencian Community.

The regulation includes eight annexes, one for each non-university education. It highlights "the reinforcement in the Early Childhood Education stage, the commitment to school autonomy (allowing schools to determine some positions in their staff to align with their educational project), the promotion of educational inclusion (ensuring schools have the resources to support students with specific educational needs), and the provision of educational guidance hours in general education courses."

Additionally, an additional provision is included to create a monitoring commission for the application of the staffing calculation criteria. There is also a provision enabling the competent personnel authority to modify the order's annexes when new needs are identified in the educational system or as agreed by the monitoring commission.

According to the Ministry, this regulation will allow teaching staff to be adapted to the real needs of each school, considering factors such as student numbers, special educational needs, specific educational programs, and the socio-demographic characteristics of the environment, among others.

However, the CCOO Education Federation has denounced that the agreement published this Tuesday will lead to "significant cuts in staff and units in adult education for the 25-26 academic year."

The union, which has called an event this Wednesday to present its demands, emphasizes that "these cuts are in addition to those in Official Language Schools and Vocational Training centers, which are a direct consequence of a staffing agreement published that CCOO refused to negotiate."