Rosenthal, former editor of the New York Times who currently writes a column for its editorial page, recently were cited as evidence of the end of a conservative consensus on key foreign policy subjects.
The Popular Party has also put forth a controversial proposal to overhaul the public education system that would emphasize mathematics, sciences and foreign languages over other subjects and require more standardized testing.
They hire better-qualified teachers, and more of them, offering higher salaries to lure those with qualifications in difficult subjects such as physics, mathematics and foreign languages, and now have twice as many teachers per pupil as state schools do.