The delegate of the Council in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), David Gómez, highlighted on Wednesday the commitment of the Government of Castile-La Mancha to improve and expand public services and generate jobs, which in the case of education results in the creation of more than 294 places in the first cycle of preschool education from 0 to 3 years in the region of Talavera de la Reina and which will mean a investment of more than 3.3 million euros.
David Gómez explained that “the commitment of the government chaired by Emiliano García-Page to education and the reconciliation of family and professional life underlies this initiative and for its development agreements have been signed collaboration agreements with ten town halls of the region which will allow the opening or expansion of these nursery schools.
The beneficiary municipalities are Alcaudete de la Jara, Cazalegas, Cebolla, Los Navalucillos, Malpica de Tajo, Mejorada, Navalcnán, Segurilla, Velada and Talavera de la Reina, “which will be joined by new towns in the coming months and school years, as “This is an open program”, underlines the Council delegate.
Schooling at the first level of preschool education “receives a decisive boost from the Government of Castile-La Mancha – he assured -, which already means the creation of 1,791 new places from 0 to 3 years in the province of Toledo thanks to the signing of 36 collaboration agreements with the municipalities of Toledo, which involves an investment exceeding 12.7 million euros.
David Gómez, who was speaking at a press conference with the provincial delegate of Education, Culture and Sports, José Gutiérrez, highlighted that the program to promote schooling at the first level of education preschool “has great dynamism in the Talavera region and an enormous impact not only educational, but also social and family, especially given its marked rural character“.
“We must take into account – he defended – the fact that we allow the reconciliation of family and professional life and, in addition, we provide our cities with public infrastructures that were not normally available in our region” , which, in addition, “We also respect the commitments of the pioneer Law and strategy against depopulation in Castile-La Mancha.
Another strong point of this school program is that, according to Gómez, “the nursery schools that already exist in the Talavera region can expand the places and also offer services to neighboring municipalities or to families who go to work in the city where these schools are located. .”, which gives them a regional character.
He also underlined that these 294 new places for early childhood education from 0 to 3 years represent “the creation of more than 35 jobs in our municipalities, mainly female, and which are of an undefined nature and of quality with “l ‘impact’ that this also has an impact on the settlement of the population in the territory.
The opening of nursery schools and the expansion of places from 0 to 3 years old are financed by Next Generation European funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which is carried out in collaboration with local regional councils and their nursery schools. Who The regional government finances the construction, equipment and adaptation of space, whether in a new building or in functional municipal schools.
“We propose – underlined the delegate of the Council – modalities that do not have other autonomy, such as the integration of the nursery school in nursery and primary schools with available places, transforming them into unique educational centers which cover from 0 years to sixth grade. and optimize resources.
