The works of the Child and Primary Education Center (CEIP) ‘Encarna León’, located in the former headquarters of Gabriel de Morales, have been completed and the center will be in operation this September, at the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year.
This was announced this morning by the Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, who has visited the property accompanied by the Vice-President of the City, Gloria Rojas; the Councilor for Education, Elena Fernández Treviño; and with the advisor of the Educational Programs Unit of the Provincial Directorate of Education, Belén Fernández.
As he explained, it is a large, four-line center, which has cost 12.4 million euros. “In addition to the different classrooms where the classes will be taught, we have multipurpose rooms, with offices for the Direction, the Head of Studies, Teacher Rooms, Music Classrooms, Dining Room... In short, a broad center, at the forefront of the country,” he said.
“It is good news not only for the educational community but for Melilla society in general,” said the highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city, who recalled that, from the first day he came to the Government, “we talked about a commitment to Melilla and a commitment to the education of Melilla and to improve educational quality.”
To do this, he said, “several actions were necessary”, one of them continuing to build educational centers “to be able to alleviate the high ratios that we had previously and that the PP continually condemned us for the lack of educational infrastructures”.
Thus, he recalled that, with the Executive of Pedro Sánchez, the Official School of Languages, the Adult Center and the Conservatories have been put into operation, as well as the Secondary Education Institute ‘Virgen de Victoria’, in Jardín Valenciano, to which is added the completion of the work of the CEIP ‘Encarna León’.
Human and material resources
A commitment, Moh has made clear, which is reflected not only in the construction of the centers, but also in actions such as the provision of material and human resources, the quota of 170 people “that came in a pandemic but arrived to stay and that has made, provisionally, even the construction of new centers, allow the situations of ratio to be alleviated and that our students could receive a better quality of teaching”.
But the Delegate also referred to the collaboration between the Government Delegation and the Provincial Directorate of Education with the Ministry of Education. “There have been many projects that have been carried out and that have nourished our schools with all the necessary tools, both in pandemic and out of pandemic,” he recalled.
At this point, Moh thanked the Councilor for Education and the Councilor for the Presidency and Vice-President of the city for their collaboration. “The effort of the Autonomous City, through both figures, and the support has always been constant and continuous.”
Sabrina Moh, in her speech, also referred to the Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Plan which, in its axis number 3 that addresses the improvement of public services in the city, “includes many measures that are going to improve the educational system in Melilla”.
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