Overview
- The High Court partially upheld the AEB’s challenge to the 2025–26 management instructions, annulling clauses that framed Catalan as the only cohesion language.
- The judgment states Catalan may be the system’s base language but Spanish cannot be excluded as a vehicular language without specific justification.
- Schools must explicitly include Spanish in their linguistic projects, requiring revisions where the language was relegated or left unstated.
- Magistrates warned that tying cohesion to exclusive Catalan use imposes a uniform linguistic identity and infringes fundamental rights.
- The AEB welcomed the decision and urged the Education Department to immediately amend instructions and drop provisions tied to linguistic coordinators.