Juan José Guardia, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law at UIC Barcelona, was one of the guest speakers at the debate organised by the International University of La Rioja (UNIR) on the situation of subsidised private schools as a result of Organic Law 3/2020 and its future impact on subsidised education, held in Madrid on Tuesday 17 September.
In this event, moderated by José María Beneyto, director of Fundación Ciudadanía y Valores (FUNCIVA); Juan José Guardia, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Blanco, Professor of the University of Alcalá, and Marcos González, Professor of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, analysed the transformations in state-subsidised private education in Spain as a result of the Organic Law 3/2020, of 29 December, which amends Organic Law 2/2006, of 3 May, on Education (LOMLOE), exploring its main developments, legal and practical implications, as well as the criticisms and controversies that have ensued.
Issues such as the differences in models between autonomous communities or the elimination of the concept of “social demand” as a criterion for signing agreements and the provisions on the financing of subsidised private education generated special debate. Juan José Guardia spoke from the legal sphere of the past and future of the agreement, of the danger of legislative promises and of differential education. The expert pointed out that “the educational agreement does not respond to a sociological phenomenon, such as the baby boom, but is the result of the constitutional pact enshrined in Article 27.9 of the Spanish Constitution.”
Lecturer Juan José Guardia has contributed his research to the study and evolution of educational rights in Spain with publications such as Conciertos educativos y régimen de copago en España. Entre la ficción y la realidad, [Educational agreements and copayment in Spain. Between fiction and reality] in the Revista General de Derecho Administrativo [Journal of Administrative Law] (2022) and Freedom of Education and Freedom of Establishment (Article 49 TFEU), published in the Revista Jurídica de Catalunya [Catalan Journal of Law] (2023).
