Given the imminent back to classes On Tuesday, March 5, Ministry of Education (Mineduc) announced the delivery of Junaeb school supplies emergency kits this Thursday, in order to help the four thousand boys, girls and adolescents victims as a result of the fires that afflicted the Valparaíso Region.
These kits will complement the benefits of the delivery of Junaeb tools nationwide, which is estimated to contribute to two million students.
«As announced by the Ministry of Social Development, through the Junaeb we are going to acquire precisely the school supply kits, also including backpack for damaged boys and girls,» said the Minister of Education, Nicolás Cataldo.
«Are more than four thousand kits, both for basic education and for secondary education, which includes all the inputs and tools. This will be delivered on March 1st (by educational establishments),» he added.
For its part, the executive director(s) of the Superintendency of Education, Marggie Muñoz, He called «for the communities to talk and dialogue at the beginning of the school year regarding their internal regulations.»
That is to say, that said regulation adapts «to reality -the minister already said it- socioeconomic of families; that generate fluid communication channels so that these divergences can be discussed and resolved.»
ATACAMA: COMMERCIAL HIGH SCHOOL WILL NOT OPEN UNTIL APRIL DESPITE WORK
Regarding teacher complaints in the Region of Atacama -who accused that the Government has not yet fulfilled its promises to improve infrastructure of educational facilities – Minister Cataldo maintained that «work is being done» so that the March 4 starts the school year in most establishments.
However, «there are some in which the plans will be contingency: He Copiapó Commercial High School is in a situation of infrastructure evaluation, which will be just (completed) in the month of April. (But that It is not delayed: it is planned that way,» the authority said.
Therefore, «the educational community of the Liceo Comercial you cannot study there; you have to reassign it to another educational facility, just as happened in the year 2023. And so, at least, there are two other establishments that are in a situation of reviewing more structural conditions,» the minister concluded.
Regarding students in higher education, There are 1,300 registered university students according to the FIBE files of the region, who, according to the authorities, will receive aid in the coming days.