Compromís has taken to Congress and the European Commission the sending of letters from the Ministry of Education to Valencian families through official educational platforms, understanding that the Generalitat may have used personal data for political purposes. The latest offensive stems from a letter sent on May 7 by minister Carmen Ortí through GVA Web Familia 2.0 in the midst of an indefinite teachers' strike.
The tension of the case lies in the use of channels intended for school management and communication with families to intervene in a labor and political conflict. Alberto Ibáñez, a deputy from Compromís in Congress, asks the Government if this sending violates the right to data protection and if the Ministry of Education will report the facts to the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
Compromís asks if Education will report the use of data in the May 7th letter
Ibáñez maintains that the Conselleria used institutional emails from the Generalitat with personal data to target and criminalize a constitutional right such as the strike. The parliamentarian links this action to the letter signed by Ortí and sent to Valencian families when the teaching staff was maintaining the indefinite strike.
In that communication, the councilor defended the Consell's educational policies and introduced the conflict with the teaching staff into a channel of direct communication with students and families. Ortí even stated that the evaluation of second-year Baccalaureate students was not negotiable and that no student or family could be held hostage by a union conflict.
The indefinite strike remains focused on salary and infrastructure claims. Ibáñez supports the demands of the teaching staff, including a reduction in class sizes, salary improvements, air-conditioned classrooms, and more support staff, and demands that the Valencian government prioritize public education.
Marzà expands the complaint to Brussels for the repeated use of Itaca
The Compromís initiative is not limited to Congress. Vicent Marzà, a Member of the European Parliament for the party, has asked the European Commission to assess whether the Generalitat violated the General Data Protection Regulation due to the repeated use of the Itaca platform to send communications of a political nature to families and minors.
Marzà cites as a precedent another massive mailing carried out in February 2025. At that time, counselor José Antonio Rovira used Itaca to send an ideological letter to more than 570,000 families in a consultation on the language of instruction in schools.
"Public tools intended for educational management cannot become channels for the Consell's political propaganda" - Vicent Marzà, MEP for Compromís
The MEP denounces that Itaca stores personal data of families and minors and that the Generalitat would have used it for mass communications without consent and for a purpose other than that for which this data was collected. The question registered in Brussels expressly asks whether this use of public educational databases infringes the European regulation.
Ortí defended that the letter sought to inform families
The councilor has defended the sending. Carmen Ortí maintained that the intention of the letter was to inform families because the Department has the obligation to watch over the students.
Faced with that justification, family associations denounced violations of articles 5.1.a) and 5.1.b) of the General Data Protection Regulation, referring to loyalty, transparency, and purpose limitation. PSPV, Compromís, the Federation of Associations of Parents of Students of the Province of Valencia, and the Students' Union also accused the Generalitat of breaching the Institutional Advertising Law.
As a next step, Compromís has activated the website conselleraspam.com for mothers and fathers to register complaints before the Spanish Data Protection Agency for the letter sent by Carmen Ortí.