According to José Eduardo Illueca Councilman IU-Greens Murcia Cieza at City Hall, "the underfunding of municipal conservatories of music has shown, once again, when the time comes the admission of students, meeting with a situation where vacancies are endowed insufficient to absorb all the students who pass the entrance exam, a demanding test that students attend, in most cases, having successfully received and full training along various courses in the respective municipal schools ".
Clearly something wrong with the system "when students are approved, even students who have passed the test two consecutive years, and since enrollments are left without a place to pursue formal studies to which they are entitled, with no alternative in another center is all but impossible for abandoning his musical training and with it much of their personal illusions and economic investment, negligible, conducted over the period of musical school. "
In addition, situations of inequality generated "in relation to students access to music education in Murcia, Cartagena and Lorca, where official music conservatories of regional ownership exist."
In Murcia there are five municipal conservatories of music professionals, located in the municipalities of Caravaca, Cieza, Jumilla, Molina de Segura and San Javier.
According Illueca explains, "these municipal conservatories were the model for what was decided at the time to extend these regulated education of regional competition, many areas of Murcia where a significant social demand, an option that was taken basically to have existed least economic cost extensions conservatories officers. "
However, "the economic crisis and the cuts have highlighted the instability of this management model, the Community cuts year after year subsidizing rates, citing the municipal ownership of the centers, while the municipalities or can not afford the costs or do not consider it a priority. "
The reality is that these centers have been left somewhat "in no man's land" and "those who suffer the consequences are the students who are depleted possibilities for exercising their fundamental right to education in their musical side."
To Illueca, "is criticized both the abandonment of the municipalities and the autonomous region, but more so in the latter case, since the Community has the same obligation to these centers with managed directly."
From IU-Greens believes that "municipal conservatories, issues management fees, are working very well and contribute significantly to the promotion of musical culture in the region, so ensuring continuity in the same quality and attention to the social demand that is generated in each municipality must become a priority of regional political power. "
The formation of the left and presented, "Two years ago, an initiative in the Regional Assembly that sought to guarantee the functioning of professional municipal conservatories Cieza, Caravaca, Jumilla and San Javier, and the quality of the given music lessons, providing one and ensuring adequate financial subsidy payment sufficiently in advance. "
These requirements remain in view Illueca, full force, "and, of course, this is a commitment to training, to the extent that we grant citizens the responsibilities of government at the local or regional level, work for it."
Source: IU-verdes Cieza