The Ministry of Education opens this Tuesday in Tinajo one of the first two classrooms for students of the first cycle of Early Childhood Education of the course 2023/2024 in the Islands. The space is located in the CEIP Guiguan and has been visited this Monday by the counselor Poli Suárez.
The opening of this educational facility, which will also be added tomorrow with as many places as the classroom of the CEIP La Ladera, in La Aldea de San Nicolás (Gran Canaria), will mean the start-up of 18 places for students from two to three years old, which will allow both their schooling and a better conciliation by their families.
The creation of these 36 places was planned for the beginning of the current course, but, after the taking of possession of the current Government, in July of this year, the new heads of Education assured that "the majority of works and supplies necessary for the start-up in 65 centers of 1,196 new places from zero to three years (from two to three, in reality) had not been tendered or awarded by their predecessors".
Faced with this situation, the current Government of the Canary Islands approved to allocate four million euros so that, until the opening of their reference center, the boys and girls of the Canary Islands born in 2021 and enrolled in the first cycle of Early Childhood Education in public centers whose works had not yet been completed, could be schooled.
For this, it closed an agreement with the kindergartens of the Islands, both with the municipal public ones and with the private ones, to which the affected students were referred in a temporary and extraordinary way, with the forecast that they would be occupying their places progressively, as the works were completed.
With this measure, a solution was found for these boys and girls for the present course. "This is a temporary and extraordinary situation to avoid serious damage to families caused by the previous Government of the Canary Islands," said Poli Suárez in his day, who now shows his satisfaction for the fact that these students can finally occupy their regional public places.
In that sense, Education plans from January the progressive opening of the remaining 1,200 places (half of them, about 600, during the mentioned month), so that all of these students can start, already normally, the course 2024/2025.
