PRC has presented the creation of the "Pasaporte Cantabria", a training program aimed at Primary and Secondary school students with the aim that they get to know "firsthand" the history, heritage, and traditions of the autonomous community.
The proposal, filed by the regionalists in the Parliament through a non-legislative motion, consists of a cultural passport that the students will complete with stamps as they make visits to the sites included in a catalog of historical and cultural spaces distributed throughout all the regions.
These outings would be accompanied by pedagogical activities adapted to each age group and specific routes according to the different educational stages, in coordination with town councils, museums, cultural entities, and associations dedicated to the protection and dissemination of heritage.
The initiative has been detailed by the deputy and PRC candidate for the Presidency of Cantabria, Paula Fernández, during her visit to the Cueva de El Pendo and the El Pasiego cheese factory, in Camargo, where she argued that "to love and defend our land, one first has to know it" and insisted on the importance of young people discovering "the history and traditions that identify us as a people".
Fernández Viaña has emphasized that the goal is "to turn Cantabria into a great open classroom" so that schoolchildren learn about their past "by touring the places where it happened" and get closer to resources such as prehistoric caves, the Roman site of Julióbriga, historical institutions, museums, and the most significant monuments in the region. Cantabria, "a great open classroom".
The regionalist candidate has asked the PP Executive, chaired by María José Sáenz de Buruaga, to take on "specific commitments" to put the program into operation and ensure the necessary financial and organizational support, so that all educational centers can join in, with special attention to those located in rural areas.
"Knowing our land must be an opportunity for everyone, never a privilege for a few," Fernández Viaña emphasized, defending that neither the families' economic situation nor the municipality where they live should become "an impediment" to participate in these activities.
The regionalist has explained that the plan is to launch the program in the 2027-2028 school year through a pilot experience that will make it possible to gradually expand it to all educational centers.
The design of the "Pasaporte Cantabria" also includes annual prizes and recognitions for the classrooms that stand out for their involvement and for the work developed throughout the school year.
Pending development of the Cantabrian curriculum
In parallel, Fernández Viaña has recalled that the PP Government continues to keep the contents of the Cantabrian curriculum undeveloped, approved by the PRC in the previous legislature, despite the fact that both Buruaga and the Minister of Education, Sergio Silva, committed to promoting them with their own resources.
In her view, this is an "unjustifiable" failure to comply that cannot be "overlooked", even more so when the PRC introduced a specific amendment to prepare these materials in the 2025 budget agreement.
"The Partido Popular has had time, resources, and opportunities to comply. What it has lacked is political will," the deputy has reproached.
The regionalists again included this demand in the 2026 budget pact, this time with an allocation intended to commission its drafting to a specialized educational group, but the Executive has not carried out what was agreed.
"Two budget agreements, two signed commitments, two breaches by the Partido Popular," the parliamentarian has denounced, who has recalled that articles 10 and 30 of the Cantabria Education Law require the incorporation of content specific to the autonomous community in education.