The Supreme Court has established that "it is not possible to associate single-sex education with discrimination on grounds of sex", in a ruling in its administrative litigation chamber that, against the Junta de Andalucía, is favourable to the Andalusian Federation of Centers of Private Education.

"Mixed education is a means, not the only one, of promoting the elimination of gender inequality," according to the judgment, which, on the Unesco Convention, which provides that access to education to both sexes should be facilitated, clarifies that schools should not be "those who must offer such conditions of access".

The judgment of the Supreme Court is due to the appeal filed by the Junta de Andalucía against a resolution of the Supreme Court of Justice of Andalucía (TSJA) also favourable to the theses of the aforementioned Federation of Private Education Centers, which has reported in a statement on this ruling .

This resolution specifically refers to Altair school in Seville, and is the first to be communicated, so the federation expects the pending resolutions to take place in the coming days in the same direction.

The communiqué remembers that it is the first sentence of the Supreme that pronounces on this question, "by which they constitute a statement on the subject".

The federation, which manages more than 400 educational schools of all levels and teachings, has insisted that both the earlier ruling of the TSJA and now that of the Supreme Court "dismiss the arguments used by the Administration to deny public funding, stating that the content of those refusals do not conform to the legal system '.

"It is a duty of the entire public administration to repeal those acts whose contents have been declared unlawful by the courts," recalls the statement of the federation, which relies on "prompt restitution in their rights to schools, families, teachers and the whole educational community in these schools ".

For the federation, the resolution of the Supreme Court amounts to a "clear recognition of freedom of education and the right of parents to choose education projects in accordance with their convictions."