Teachers are circulating the following public statement: 'If we, the teachers, don't pay for electricity and water, the school will close.' Such is the absurdity of the demands imposed by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (CABA) on many adult schools that have been operating within the CABA for over 20 years. Towards the end of 2025, the Ministry of Education of the City informed us that it was initiating a process to update documentation for Experimental Educational Management Units (UGEE) and Popular Bachelor's Degrees recognized by the Ministry. In this agreement, the Ministry disclaims all responsibilities that the State has regarding the operation of a state school and transfers all these obligations to the teachers. After presenting the required documentation, the Ministry sent us what it calls a 'collaboration agreement.' The teachers of the December 2nd Popular Bachelor's Degree, located in the Barracas neighborhood, denounce the precarious working conditions for teachers and non-teaching staff, who must now take charge of financing the programs and ensuring the continuity of classes by their own means. We understand this action not as a measure to regularize the operation of an adult school, but as an attempt to maximize the precariousness of teaching work, reaching the extreme—expressed in the title of this communiqué—of financing services and operational costs, including building maintenance and hygiene, which should be guaranteed by the State. We want to denounce this situation that Adult Education is going through and request that it be disseminated to the public opinion to make visible this new attack on Public Education. The teachers at this school find it impossible to accept this agreement. The Ministry goes so far as to set the expiration date of the agreement for December 2027. It also disengages from the salary issue and does not guarantee a budget for the schools' operation. A measure that is part of a budgetary adjustment context that also affects kindergartens and other educational spaces. By ANRed. The December 2nd Popular Bachelor's Degree has been functioning for 18 years within the República de Haití School, in Barracas. Our school, UGEE No. 6 – December 2nd Bachelor's Degree, has been operating for 18 years in the building of the República de Haití School, located at Lafayette 1879.
