Court reiterates that sentence annulling protection of Catalan as language of teaching be carried out

The Catalan High Court has ordered that a prior ruling be carried out that annulled a large part of Catalonia's linguistic education program which protected Catalan as the language of use in classrooms.

The ruling is not final, but the court partially upholds the request for provisional execution of the Catalan Assembly for Bilingual School.

There are 11 articles annulled in whole or in part that established Catalan as the working language in teaching and administrative activity, in relations with families, in teaching materials, and in assessments.

The ruling annulls establishing Catalan as the language of instruction for teaching foreign languages, ​​and the sole language of reception for newly arrived students without providing mechanisms for balanced learning of Spanish. Also the obligation that Catalan be the language of teachers in both curricular and non-curricular activities, formal or informal, and that non-teaching and extracurricular activities staff be competent in Catalan and comply with the school's linguistic project.

Also among the annulled articles are those that establish the guarantee of the "adequate presence of Spanish to guarantee the linguistic competence of students at the end of the compulsory educational stage."

The partially annulled decree was based on the 2022 law on the use and learning of official languages ​​in non-university education and also on the decree law of the same year that establishes the criteria for developing, approving, validating and reviewing the schools' linguistic projects.

The Catalan government promoted these regulations in order to protect the language immersion system against court rulings that required a minimum of 25% of teaching in Spanish in certain cases.