The Arona Town Hall has asked the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands the “enormous importance” of having new institutes and expanding some of the existing oneswith the aim of dealing with the “imperative need to respond to our neighbors and to deal with the educational pressure, both current and that which is expected for the coming years”, explained the mayor, José Julián Mena.
The Councilors for Education and Urban Planning, Julia Morales Borges and Leopoldo Díaz Oda, respectively, met yesterday with the Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuela Armas, to plan the development of educational centers for the coming years in Arona, one of the municipalities with the greatest educational pressure in the Canary Islands, due to the great growth of the population in recent decades and waiting for the Parque La Reina institute to finally open its doors, which is more than three years late.
In yesterday’s meeting, progress has been made on the possibility of the transfer of municipal land that allows the construction of new institutes in Valle San Lorenzo, the town of Arona, Los Cristianos and Cho, according to the City Council.
In the case of El Fraile, the construction of a Compulsory Education Center has been proposed. Currently, the students of this town are forced to transfer to the Secondary School of Guaza and, soon, to the Parque La Reina. In this way, he could stay at El Fraile until the fourth year of ESO.
The Arona City Council and the Ministry of Education announced a meeting for the coming weeks with the group of directors of educational centers in the municipality, which will be attended by the counselor Manuela Armas, to address the situation of educational pressure affecting the educational centers and gather first-hand information on the situation, which allows the development of a roadmap that responds to current and future needs.
José Julián Mena thanked the “predisposition” of the counselor Manuela Armas to jointly plan the development of educational centers in Arona, which demand, he stressed, “quality services”.