ANPE Castilla-La Mancha highlights the reduction of teaching hours to 18 hours in secondary education and the OEP for teachers by 2026

As ANPE reports in a press release, the 2025-2026 school year began with more teachers in classes in the region despite the reduction in students due to the drop in the birth rate. 3,000 fewer students and 530 new teachers hiredincluding 263 thanks to the reduction in ratios and teaching hours included in the agreement concluded by the ANPE, the second block of measures of which was signed in June of this year.

Currently, in full negotiation for the composition of the units of public centers in the region, as well as the teaching staff for the academic year 2026-2027, ANPE is satisfied because the ratio which will be taken into account for the preparation of all groups of Early Childhood Education and the 1st and 2nd years of Primary Education, which will have 22 students.

Furthermore, during the first months of 2026, improvements in educational inclusion strategies, measures for people over 55, other measures of the Bureaucracy Reduction Plan and improvement of summer remuneration conditions for temporary staff, among others, will be negotiated.

In addition, Arrears for periods of three and six years resulting from the recognition of vacation accumulated for substitutions will be paid automatically.. A recognized period of service with administrative retroactivity of 15 years and economic retroactivity of four.

Likewise, the ANPE will put demands on the table such as the implementation of the professional career; the inclusion of all teaching staff in the group of A1 civil servants and the increase in the level complements of each of them; more economic and human resources for educational inclusion; a resolute commitment to professional training; accelerate the air conditioning of centers; continue to reduce bureaucracy; or a new coexistence decree that strengthens and protects the work of teachers, among others.