"The way we do it, we are studying it", but "we will certainly do it", said Méndez de Vigo.
The Government studies to include a box to choose Castilian in the Catalan school.
The Catalan educational community and the sovereignists are opposed to changing the linguistic model.
The Government wants to ensure the freedom and the right of parents to choose Castilian as the vehicular language of their children in educational centers in Catalonia and is studying the formula "that best guarantees and combines" with the Catalan educational model.
The Minister of Education, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, said this Friday at the press conference after the Council of Ministers after the controversy that arose on Thursday following the request of the union of teachers AMES and Catalan Civil Society so that in the registration The next school year in Catalonia includes a box to choose Spanish.
"The way we do it, we are studying it, but we will certainly do it", said the minister, who explained that during the last three years the Executive "has not agreed" on how the guarantee of power was carried out study in Spanish as a vehicular language in Catalonia and has used it.
"The coherent thing is that, according to these resources, we want to modify it at this time (the pre-registration) in that sense, but that does not mean any change in the educational model of Catalonia," he stressed.
Also, the government spokesman also recalled that "educational models are in the laws," in the Lomce and, in this case, in the Catalan Education Act of 2009, "which is fully in force," and has pointed out that no Government can modify it, the only one that can is the Catalan Parliament.

The Executive has taken the decision now to guarantee the right to classes in Castilian under article 155, by which the Ministry has the competences of the Catalan Ministry of Education.
Minimum of 25% of classes in Spanish
In addition, he insisted that "this is nothing more than fulfilling an obligation" as established by the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).

In this regard, he recalled that the TSJC has set a minimum of 25% of classes taught in Castilian. According to sources from the Catalan Teaching Department, a dozen schools are teaching 25% of classes in Spanish, after families request it.
The measure of application of 25% consists in offering a subject using Spanish as the vehicular language, "that each school can choose according to its characteristics and educational project and that affects the class of the child whose family has requested it".
Méndez de Vigo has said that now developing the guarantee of choice of Castilian is "a technical issue" and the Government "will do it the best way" to know, has continued the minister, who has not wanted to talk about "boxes" of forms or "no concrete model".
"Now there is a form with a pre-registration, we want it to be done not individualized, but collectively, and that we are studying," added the head of Education, who pointed out that it also analyzes the estimate of how many students could request it and its cost.
Asked by journalists if this issue is a measure of pressure on the independence movement to try to unblock the Catalan crisis, he replied: "It is a measure to promote freedom and guarantee a constitutional right, nothing more." "It's not a balloon," said Méndez de Vigo, "it's about" approving a resolution that needs to be taken "because in February and March that's when pre-inscriptions are made.
Precisely for that reason, AMES has initiated a few days ago a petition for signatures on Change.org (it has almost 7,000) where it claims that "in the pre-enrollment model a linguistic option box is inserted, so that parents or legal guardians can indicate if they want their son or daughter to study, also using Spanish as the vehicular language ".
Reactions
After the announcement of the Government, the reactions have taken place. This Friday, the PSOE has indicated that intervening in the linguistic model of Catalonia corresponds to the Catalan Parliament and the future Govern, and not to article 155. In the same sense, the PNV has been expressed.
Also the president of the Generalitat ceased, Carles Puigdemont, has opined that the government's intention "tries to divide the Catalan students by their language." "But the Catalan will resist, and the truth will prevail," he wrote on twitter.
For the leader of Citizens, Albert Rivera, his educational model is that of the Constitutional Court, which ruled a "joint and balanced" presence of Catalan and Castilian in schools and has encouraged President Mariano Rajoy to pass "from the words to the acts" This Thursday, the educational community of Catalonia, cultural institutions, different parties and the Mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, expressed their frontal rejection of the Government's intention. This Friday again, the Federation of AMPAS of Catalonia and the Christian Confederation of Associations of Parents of Students of Catalonia, have joined the criticism and believe that students should not be segregated by the language. Currently, the additional provision 38 of the Lomce fixed that families who do not have a center public to ensure Castilian as a vehicular language for their children, the Ministry of Education will cover the costs of their schooling in private schools and will be paid by the corresponding educational Administration. The Government has been reducing the state budget to apply this provision from the course 2014-15 This amount started being five million in 2015, went to one million in 2016 and in the 2017 budget stood at 500,000 euros.