Seven of the nine centers involved will recover fully their facilities
The Minister of Education, Training and Employment, Sotoca Constantine, said today that full recovery of Lorca's educational heritage with an investment exceeding 20 million euros, due to damage caused by the earthquake on 11 May.
Sotoca stressed that the primary objective has set his department is "start the next school as normally as possible."
To do this, the Ministry is working "intensively" throughout the summer to tackle the most urgent work to enable schools to open next September, and have a budget of six million euros.
The Education Minister took stock of the works are ongoing and primarily affect six infant and primary schools (San Jose, San Fernando, Jose Robles, Virgen de las Huertas, Alfonso X, and Sacred Heart) and three Secondary Schools (Giner Ros, Ramón Arcas and Ibanez Martin).
Sotoca said that "the nine most affected sites, seven of them will fully recover their spaces as they are working on the total rehabilitation of the six schools most affected by the earthquake and the Institute Ibanez Martin."
As for the IES Ramón Arcas, the Minister announced that "the center has a very affected ward and although studies are being completed on the resistance of its structure, it will mean that some students may remain in another wing of the center itself that we are repairing, and other groups have to travel to other offices. "
Specifically, students in first, second and third year of high school, along with the third group diversification and professional qualification programs, may remain in the Ramón Arcas.
Meanwhile, students in the fourth that, the group diversified 4th and receive high school class in the facilities of campus classrooms that "we have been given to that effect and operation throughout the month of August" said the director.
Also, students of the three training courses shall go to the Integrated Training of Lorca.
As for Ros IES Giner, Sotoca explained, "is the center that was in worse shape after the earthquake, which forced us to demolish many of its facilities."
May be used only "12 classrooms in the classrooms, in which we are working now and where they are students of Bachelor. The secondary, meanwhile, will receive classes in the new facilities of IES No. 6 Lorca "he added.
The Education Minister also referred to education as agreed and said that the information provided by the centers, the Mother of God School will reopen at the beginning of next school year, the Sun City will also work as ordinary, and San Francisco Assisi classes normally taught in nursery and primary school while classes are expected to be taught in the evenings during September and October.
The Minister thanked the Education Minister, Ángel Gabilondo, the support of his department that has resulted in the signing of an agreement and the amount of which "will face some of the costs of this process of rehabilitation and repair of education facilities," he said.
Source: CARM