Ignacio Zafra

The vaccination drive is picking up pace in Spain, while in Madrid many parents have opted not to send their children to school due to the spike in coronavirus cases

The situation in the country’s education centers is the worst it has been since they reopened in September 2020, with a record number of outbreaks recorded in December

The central Health Ministry has recommended starting with 11-year-olds first and working backwards to five-year-olds, but each health department will be free to organize this part of the campaign as they see fit

EL PAÍS reviews the measures currently in place, the school procedure for dealing with a Covid-19 infection and whether parents have the right to paid leave if their child has to self-isolate

The central government and the regions are considering exempting vaccinated students from quarantines. There are also plans to hire thousands of extra teaching staff

Andreas Schleicher, director of Education and Skills at the OECD, backs the country’s latest education reform and applauds efforts to keep classrooms open during the pandemic

Central government is seeking to convince regional authorities to maintain coronavirus measures in place despite an improving situation aided by the vaccination campaign

According to a recent study, the country is one of the OECD nations where students have missed out on the fewest days of in-class learning

Just 1.4% of classrooms across the country are currently confined despite a nationwide surge in infections in Spain following the Christmas holidays

Congress on Thursday approved a bill that the political right has vowed to fight tooth and nail, in a replay of the discord triggered by seven earlier reforms

A preliminary analysis for the EU by a research group at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia suggests that safety measures may be preventing significant transmission among students

The number represents just 1% of the total, but has led to problems for thousands of families struggling to balance work with looking after children in isolation

Educators and parents are divided over the benefits of sending preschoolers to class amid a nationwide resurgence of Covid-19 cases

But regional officials say the central government's coronavirus guidelines for social distancing are impossible to observe due to space shortages

Distance between students is reduced from two to 1.5 meters, but classrooms may accommodate no more than 20 children

Regional education chiefs reject recommendations by PM Pedro Sánchez to open up classrooms for children up to six years of age when Phase 2 of the deescalation plan goes into effect

Education Ministry and regions are planning a mixed model of online and on-site teaching, but the sector is calling for more resources

Madrid, Andalusia, Basque Country and others say they disagree with the central government’s proposal to make up for the negative impact of the school closures due to the coronavirus crisis

Education officials will let teachers award varying scores depending on performance during first two terms

Madrid mayor is considering closing bars and restaurants as cases in the region reach 2,000

Infections push past the 200 mark while Israel announces that travelers from Spain and other countries will be quarantined

Many Spaniards have returned home to avoid being trapped if a quarantine is declared in the affected areas

Hundreds of tractors blocked streets and freeways in Valencia and Córdoba on Friday, with producers calling for changes to the practices of major distribution chains

Across the country, agricultural organizations are planning street action to draw attention to the precarious conditions of nearly one million businesses

The suspected attackers and their victims met at a bar in Murcia on New Year’s Eve, and later that night went to two apartments where the events reportedly took place

Lack of water, pollution from urban and industrial waste, unsustainable hunting and climate change are threatening the freshwater lagoon and estuary in the east of Spain