The Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Soledad Monzón, confirmed this Monday in parliamentary commission that the works of the Compulsory Education Center (CEO) Playa Blanca will begin in the first quarter of next year. In response to an oral question from the mayor of Yaiza and regional deputy, Gladys Acuña, Monzón assured that the project of the new center will be delivered on November 12, after which Education foresees two months of review and then begin the adjudication process.
Monzón, who guaranteed "sufficient economic allocation to develop it throughout 2016", pointed out that the Yaiza City Council "complied in its day with all the procedures and documents for the transfer of land", according to the Council. The plot is located next to the CEIP Playa Blanca and the relevant geotechnical studies have already been carried out to execute the project.
The CEO Playa Blanca has been one of the "most pressing demands of the educational community of southern Lanzarote and its materialization will be a relief for mothers, fathers and guardians of students who finish their primary studies, since they currently have to travel more than 20 kilometers to travel to the IES Yaiza, which is located on the border with the municipality of Tías", they emphasize from the southern Consistory. Up to eleven buses go back and forth from the IES transporting about 460 children. The CEO will also reduce the population of the CEIP Playa Blanca, which with 842 children, is one of the schools with the most students in the Canary Islands.
The municipal government ceded the land for the construction of the CEO when the approval of the General Urban Planning Plan was already underway, "a key decision for the Government of the Canary Islands to take the project into account and allocate a financial file to execute it", they point out. From the City Council they emphasize that the mayor "has always claimed the usefulness" of the General Plan of Yaiza, in force since December of last year. Acuña, for her part, announces that she "will ensure compliance with the deadlines" until the CEO Playa Blanca is completed.
