Two former Education ministers, Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues and Nuno Crato, do not contest the substance of the basic education cycles reform proposed by the current Government. However, both criticize the way Minister Fernando Alexandre publicly announced the reorganization of the cycles, considering that the communication of the process could have been better.
The reform of basic education cycles has been generating public debate, but the former government members acknowledge that the substance of the proposal is not fundamentally wrong. The disagreement focuses essentially on the way the restructuring was communicated to the public and the school community.
Also in this edition of the news, former Prime Minister José Sócrates came forward to guarantee that he has never been a property owner in Paris. This statement arises in a context of questions raised about the former politician's real estate assets.
