The municipal grants for school supplies benefit 471 families, totaling 766 schoolchildren in Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, Middle Cycles, Basic Vocational Training and Baccalaureate, who will receive the amount approved by the regulatory bases in mid-September. The amount allocated for this aid was 68,940 euros. The Councilor for Education, María Clavijo Maza, points out that “we have previously started the deadlines so that the aid is available at the beginning of the school year, which is when it is most needed.”
From the City Council they anticipate that in mid-September there will be two new grants, one for the provision of technological material (150,000 euros) and another for transport (60,000).
Clavijo Maza stressed that “under no circumstances have aid been stopped, not even in the pandemic or confinement. Work has been done to match the income from the aid requested with the period in which families must spend. The school material will be paid in September and the rest of the aid will probably be paid in the month of December, also conditioned to the periods established regarding the registration of the subsidized educational stages.
Regarding the economic aid for the provision of technological material, which will be in a competitive concurrence regime, they are destined to defray the expenses derived from the acquisition of this type of material by those students who carry out Post-compulsory University Studies and Professional Training Cycles of Higher Degree registered in Adeje a year ago and who carry out their studies in Spanish public centers in the face-to-face, distance or blended modality.
Regarding the economic aid for students who do not have transport assigned by the Ministry of Education, the Adeje City Council intends to contribute to current educational policies and facilitate the movement of schoolchildren to educational centers for those students who are considered as « non-preferential» for the free public transport service assumed by the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, opting for the competitive concurrence system.
