SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
This Monday, the Department of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands opens 19 of the 29 new classrooms for students aged two to three years, whose launch is scheduled for this month.
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 La Aldea de San Nicolás (Gran Canaria) and Tinajo (Lanzarote), in the CEIPs of La Ladera and Guiguan, respectively, with a total of 36 places, details the Ministry in a note.
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 rise to 558 in the Canary Islands spread across 31 classrooms.
The councilor of the area, Poli Suárez, will attend several of these facilities on Monday in Gran Canaria along with municipal representatives, the general director of Infrastructure and Equipment, Iván González, and the territorial director of Education in Las Palmas María del Mar Méndez.
Specifically, Gran Canaria will have five new classrooms from that day on in the Early Childhood and Primary Education Centers (CEIP) José Sánchez y Sánchez (Agaete), Manolo Ortega (Arucas), Alcalde Diego Trujillo Rodríguez (Gáldar), Nicolás Aguiar Jiménez ( Santa María de Guía) and Hilda Zudán (Telde), while in Lanzarote the CEIP Playa Blanca (Yaiza) will open its doors and in Fuerteventura the CEIP Antoñito El Farero (La Oliva), Costa Calma (Pájara) 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 Cristóbal 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 (CEO) Bethencourt y Molina and Príncipe Felipe, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Victoria, 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).
Specifically, these are those of the CEIP La Lajita, in the Majorero municipality of Pájara, and those of the Gran Canaria CEIP Timplista José Antonio Ramos (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Professor Rafael Gómez Santos (San Mateo), Montaña Los Vélez (Agüimes ), Doctor Juan Espino Sánchez (Ingenio), Las Dunas and Camino de La Madera (both in San Bartolomé de Tirajana), as well as those of the CEIP Adolfo Tophan and Nieves Toledo, in Arrecife, and Ajei, in San Bartolomé.
With its opening, the current Government of the Canary Islands fulfills the “commitment” assumed upon its arrival, the Ministry highlights, when it was found that it was “materially impossible” for the 1,196 places planned in 65 centers for this course to come into operation in September. the previous Executive, since its works or supplies had not been tendered or awarded with sufficient notice.
FOUR MILLION FOR PRIVATE CENTERS
Given this situation, the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports 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 of 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.
“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 El Hierro, Gran Canaria and Tenerife , “this strategy is now starting to launch the new 2-3 year old classrooms for the 2024-2025 academic year, because it was and is a commitment of the Ministry and the Government of the Canary Islands.”
