About this episode

This episode explores the grassroots initiative addressing school segregation in Spain, focusing on mobilizing support and using data to highlight inequalities.

In this second episode of our DiveIn miniseries on school segregation in Spain, the story moves from idea to action . After introducing the grassroots initiative in the Basque Country, we now follow the organizers as they take a bold step: bringing school segregation to the political stage . What does it take to turn concern into change? In this episode, you’ll hear how activists mobilized parents, school leaders, and policymakers to gather thousands of signatures and spark a national conversation. But advocacy alone isn’t enough— data becomes their most powerful tool . Through compelling visualizations and creative use of available data, the team exposes stark inequalities between public schools and publicly funded private schools (concertadas). The patterns are hard to ignore: differences in who attends which schools reveal deep divides shaped by class, migration, and history. Along the way, we zoom out to understand how Spain compares globally—and why the Basque Country presents a unique and complex case. From language politics to the legacy of ikastolas , schools born as resistance under dictatorship but now entangled in new forms of inequality, this episode uncovers the…

People in this episode

Host: Federico R. Waitoller

Topics covered

• educational segregation
• advocacy
• data visualization
• inequality
• political mobilization
• Basque Country
• school systems

Keywords

• educational segregation
• Basque Country
• advocacy
• inequality
• data visualization
• school systems
• politics
• migration
• class

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Basque Country

Places: Spain, Basque Country, ikastolas

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