The Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Soledad Monzón, guaranteed this Friday in Parliament to the deputy of the New Canary Islands Group, Gladys Acuña, the construction next summer of two new classrooms in the CEIP Yaiza in order to alleviate the lack of space that the Center suffers to accommodate its 250 students divided into 11 groups of infant and primary school. Acuña had requested in December the appearance of the councilor in a parliamentary commission, warning of the current saturation of the school and the forecast of more children that would raise the number of groups to 12 in the 2018 - 2019 school year.
"The CEIP Yaiza does not have a jellyfish classroom, it does not have a library, nor a teachers' room, since all these spaces have been used as classrooms to house the students", argued the Lanzarote parliamentarian.
The school, she added, "has three thousand square meters without building beyond the possibility of taking advantage of the upper part of the current building." Precisely Soledad Monzón also confirmed in her oral response to Gladys Acuña that the Government already delivered the project to the Yaiza City Council in January, opting to build the two classrooms on the top floor.
Also demands improvements for the Nuestra Señora de los Volcanes Special Education Center
Acuña also took advantage of her intervention in Parliament to ask the councilor for urgent action at the Specific Center for Special Education Nuestra Señora De Los Volcanes, located in Tahíche. "We must satisfy as soon as possible the needs of this school that serves children with special educational needs."
Gladys Acuña also asked the Government for "unity of criteria throughout the Islands on what the Executive considers to be part of the maintenance of schools, because although it is clear that the conservation of buildings is the responsibility of the city councils, there are doubts in the Intervention services of the local administrations about the scope of said powers, doubts that influence the decision to authorize or not the municipal spending." "We are beating around the bush, the problem is not solved and in the end those who suffer are the students, the teachers and all the staff who work in the schools."
The approach came to light due to the "manifest concern of several Canary Island city councils that, having resources to invest, have not been able to do so. For example, the replacement of windows in schools has been rejected by Intervention services, considering that it is an action outside the scope of building maintenance."