The Canary Islands Government will pay with four million euros for the schooling in private and municipal kindergartens chosen by the families of students aged two and three enrolled in this cycle and whose public classrooms are not yet available "due to lack of planning."
This was announced this Saturday at a press conference by the Minister of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports of the regional Executive, Poli Suárez, who stressed that this "temporary and extraordinary solution" will allow 1,196 new students of these ages "not to stay at home."
Half of them will be able to start the course in September in the public centers where they have enrolled.
The other half can start this course in private or municipal centers chosen by their families, provided there are places available in them, although the Ministry will try to place them in their public classrooms as they are enabled for this, although it is possible that this will not happen and they will complete this year in these alternative schools.
Suárez thanked the fifty or so municipal and private schools for the "support and willingness" they have shown to help solve this "problem" and stressed that the teachers and assistants hired to work in the public classrooms for this first cycle of Infant education will work as support in the assigned centers, although most will be given the possibility to choose another one closer to their home until the works of the classrooms for which they have been designated are completed.
The Minister has reproached the previous Canary Islands Government for "having offered something that does not exist", by not even tendering the works of the classrooms belonging to one of the lots - the C -, planned to expand the offer of the first cycle of Infant education that began on a pilot basis during his term of office.
Suárez said that if he were a father he would not allow the Canary Islands Government not to assume its responsibility with these children, already enrolled, and estimated that all the new Infant students will be able to be in their classrooms - public or private - next September 18.
The 2023-2024 school year begins this Monday in the Canary Islands with more than 240,000 students enrolled in the different educational levels.
New Infant students without available classrooms will go to private and municipal schools
It will have an estimated cost of four million euros and "avoid the damage caused to them by the lack of foresight of the previous Executive", as has been denounced by the current Minister of Education, Poli Suárez.
September 9 2023 (15:07 WEST)
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September 9 2023 (17:30 WEST)
