The Ministry of Education has advanced one month the process of admission of students for the school year 2018/2019, which will begin on March 5 and conclude on March 16 to benefit families who apply for school in the educational centers of Totana, According to informed, in press conference, the councilman of the branch, Eulalia Moreno.
The mayor gave an account of the admission process for the next school year that includes various new features, in addition to the progress of the process, such as the new regulation for the benefit of minors with separated parents, as well as the different options with which the Ministry will communicate to the families the result of the admission process.
The mayor informed that, for the first time, in the process of admission of students, it will be necessary the signature of both parents or guardians of the minor to formalize the application.
The objective is to address cases in which there is disagreement in schooling between parents for reasons of separation or divorce.
With this measure, only one application will be accepted for each student, in which the signatures of the father and the mother must be included, whether or not they are separated.
Also noteworthy among the novelties is the advancement of the draw of surname surname letters for the allocation of educational center, which families will know before the application for admission to the different centers takes place, that is, the drawing of letters will be carried out. day one of March, before the admission process begins.
This year, for the first time, applicants may opt for four communication channels to receive, by way of information, the results of the different scale and award processes: via web, by message to the mobile phone, by email or through the Telegram mobile messaging application, explained Moreno.
Admission process deadlines
The process will begin on March 1 with the public drawing of surname letters for tiebreak.
Then, between March 5 and 16 families can submit the application forms in the center of their reference or through the website of electronic administration of the Community, both for Children, Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate.
On May 10, the score and centers for Pre-school and Primary Education will be published provisionally.
June 1 will be the final award.
In Compulsory Secondary Education and Bachillerato, the punctuation and provisional center will be published on June 4 and on July 6, the final ones.
Once awarded to its final center, the student will have three days to complete the registration.
Scare
The scoring scale is maintained with respect to the last course.
All parents can freely choose any school or institute in the municipality, since the single school zone has been extended to all the municipalities of the Community since the last school year.
The first option chosen has 2 points.
In this way, the address is no longer determinant to be able to choose the desired school, as explained by the Councilor for Education.
The scale includes 5 points per address or place of work in the school zone.
Those five points will be assigned to all families that request a school in their same municipality, regardless of the neighborhood or district in which they reside.
They will not only be added if what is requested is a place in a school in a municipality different from the residence of the family.
The centers participating in the second cycle of Early Childhood Education, Primary Education and Secondary Education may choose a complementary criterion, with a value of one point, which will be freely chosen among five different options.
The list of options for these possible center criteria will be as follows: request the center in first option, have siblings enrolled in the center, area close to the student's home or place of work of the parents with respect to the center, have completed a previous educational stage in the center or be the son or brother of a former student.
To facilitate the reconciliation between professional and family life, the scale includes a series of measures such as granting 10 points for having a sibling in the same center and 2 for each of the following.
In addition, with the new scale additional points are also granted to large families: 1 point for general large family (3 children) and 2 for the special category (more than 3 children).
In the same way, single-parent families will have two points.
Other significant scoring criteria: student with disability (4 points);
and parents or siblings with disabilities (0.5 to a total of 2 points). All information about the process, together with the corresponding documentation, will be published in the 'Admission of students' section of the Educarm portal.
Grants scholarships dining
The council also referred to the dining aids for the next course, which consist of the free menu up to an amount of 943 euros per year per student.
To obtain them, it is an essential requirement that the income of the family unit in 2017 does not exceed, based on the number of eligible members, the maximum amounts determined in the call.
The scholarships are aimed at students who are going to take a second cycle of Early Childhood Education or Primary Education in schools that have a school lunch service.
Families can request the help by filling out the application at the school or through a web form at http://sede.carm.es (section Specific electronic forms / Application for school cafeteria help, attaching a copy of the student's registration) .
The ordinary deadline for submitting applications ends on March 5 and will open an extraordinary one from September 1 to September 2018, both included, for students who are not enrolled in the center before the opening of the previous term.
Language School
Lastly, from February 23 to March 2, the deadline for access to free tests at the Official School of Languages ​​is established, informed the mayor.
More information: http://www.eoilorca.org/
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana