These 19 classrooms will have 342 places, while the remaining ten, which will open on the 15th, will have another 180, reaching a total of 522 places.
To all of them we must also add two other classrooms that came into operation on December 11 in the municipalities of The Village of San Nicolás (Gran Canaria) and Tinajo (Lanzarote), in the CEIPs of La Ladera and Guiguan, respectively, with a total of 36 places.
With all this, in the coming weeks, the number of new places open in the 2023/2024 academic year for the first cycle of Early Childhood Education (2-3 years) will increase by Canary Islands to 558 distributed in 31 classrooms, the councilor of the area, Poli Suárez, announced a few days ago, who on Monday will go to several of these facilities in Gran Canaria together with municipal representatives, the general director of Infrastructure and Equipment, Iván González, and the director Territorial Education in The Palms María del Mar Méndez.
Specifically, Gran Canaria will have five new classrooms from that day on in the José Sánchez y Sánchez Early Childhood and Primary Education Centers (CEIP).Agaete), Manolo Ortega (Arucas), Mayor Diego Trujillo Rodríguez (Galdar), Nicolás Aguiar Jiménez (Santa María de Guía) and Hilda Zudán (Telde), while in Lanzarote the CEIP will open its doors White beach (Yaiza) and in Fuerteventura those of the CEIP Antoñito El Farero will do so (The olive), Calm Coast (Bird) and Puerto Cabras (Puerto del Rosario).
In the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the ten new classrooms are located in the CEIP Los Cristianos (Arona); Punta Larga (Candelaria); Julián Zafra Moreno (Güímar); Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo-Agua García and Maximiliano Gil Melián (Tacoronte), Clorinda Salazar (San Cristobal de La Laguna), Los Verodes (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) and Granadilla de Abona, in the town of the same name, as well as in the Compulsory Education Centers (CEO) Bethencourt and Molina and Príncipe Felipe, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Victory, respectively.
Next week, starting on January 15, it will be the turn of another ten classrooms in Fuerteventura (1), Gran Canaria (6) and Lanzarote (3). These are those of the CEIP La Lajitain the Majorero municipality of Pájara, and those of the CEIP of Gran Canaria Timplista José Antonio Ramos (The Gran Canarian palms), Professor Rafael Gómez Santos (Saint Matthew), Los Vélez Mountain (Agüimes), Doctor Juan Espino Sánchez (Ingenuity), Las Dunas and Camino de La Madera (both in San Bartolome de Tirajana), as well as those of the CEIP Adolfo Tophan and Nieves Toledo, in Reefand Ajei, in San Bartolome.
With its opening, the current Government of the Canary Islands fulfills the “commitment” made upon his arrival, when he verified that it was materially impossible for the 1,196 places planned in 65 centers for this course by the previous Executive to come into operation in September, since their works or supplies had not been tendered or awarded with enough notice.
Given this situation, the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sportsdirected by Poli Suárez, approved allocating four million euros so that, until the opening of its reference centers (which is happening now), boys and girls born in 2021 and enrolled in the first cycle of Early Childhood Education in public centers in the Autonomous Community whose works had not yet been completed, could be enrolled in school.
To this end, it closed an agreement with the nursery schools of the Islands, both with the municipal public and with the private ones, to which the affected students were referred on a temporary and extraordinary basis, with the expectation that they would occupy their places progressively, as that the works were being completed.
With this measure, a solution was found for these boys and girls for this academic year. “This is a temporary and extraordinary situation to avoid serious damage to families caused by the previous Government of the Canary Islands,” stated Poli Suárez, who now shows his satisfaction at the fact that these students can finally occupy their regional public squares.
“We continue working to launch all the classrooms for two to three years,” indicated the counselor, who advances that after the opening of these 29, to which another six will also be added later in The ironGran Canaria and Tenerife, “this strategy is now starting to launch the new 2-3 classrooms for the 2024-2025 academic year, because it was and is a commitment of the Ministry and the Government of the Canary Islands.”
