Letizia opens the course in La Palma with almost a hundred students affected by the eruption of the volcano

The queen spoke with the educational community of the center and a commemorative plaque was unveiled for the start of the school year throughout Spain from the ‘beautiful island’ La Palma has been the place chosen to start the school year as a tribute to what she suffered the educational community during the eruptionIn total, 8,247,313 students return to Spanish classrooms this Friday, according to statistics published by the Ministry of Education and Vocational TrainingQueen Letizia opened the Infant and Primary school year this Friday from school Princesa Acerina de Los Llanos de Aridane, which brings together students from the Los Campitos unitary school and the Todoque school, devastated by lava, and the CEIP María Milagros Acosta, closed due to gas emissions in the Puerto Naos area. Dressed in dark tones as a result of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, she spoke with part of the hundred students who are going to occupy these facilities, accompanied by the Minister of Ed cation, Pilar Alegría, the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the president of the Cabildo de La Palma, Mariano Hernández, among others. The queen spoke with the educational community of the center and a commemorative plaque was unveiled for the start of the course in throughout Spain from the ‘beautiful island’, while visiting the neighborhood of La Laguna to see the new road that goes to Las Norias. Torres has valued that La Palma has been the place chosen to start the school year as a tribute for what the educational community suffered during the eruption and that the entire archipelago has started “normally”, without incidents with transport or teachers. The Canarian president has defended his government’s commitment to public education “clearly” , with 2,600 more teachers despite the elimination of health restrictions in order to reduce ratios, promotion of scholarships and for the first time, public education from zero to three years, starting from of the two years.”It is a path that has no turning back, we are committed to quality public education”, he stressed.More than 8.2 million studentsIn total, this Friday 8,247,313 students return to Spanish classrooms , according to the statistics ‘Data and figures. School year 2022/2023’, published by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, with forecasts based on data provided by the autonomous communities. The number of students enrolled remains stable and the courses with the greatest growth are Vocational Training, which is year 1,092,317 students, 58,371 more than the previous year (+5.6%). Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) students also increased with 8,319 more male and female students (+0.4%), up to 2,058,896 , and in Baccalaureate there are 5,828 more students than the previous year (+0.8%), up to 697,265. On the other hand, the number of boys and girls from 0 to 3 years old enrolled is up 2% compared to the previous year, with 8,878 more schoolchildren, up to 443,376, while that of children from 3 to 6 years old fell by 4%, with 47,703 fewer, to 1,140,718. Likewise, the number of Primary school students fell, with 35,970 fewer boys and girls enrolled ( -1.3%), up to 2,759,602. In addition, they are registered and n Special Education 40,618 male and female students, 1,051 more than the previous year, and 14,522 students are enrolled in other training programs, a figure similar to last year. This school year is marked by the return to normality in the classrooms, after two years of measures to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Likewise, the new curricula developed by the Education Law in odd-numbered courses, focused on more competent learning, come into force.