Nearly 80,445 students from Pinar del Río from Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, Pre-University, Technical and Professional, Adult and Special education will attend classrooms on Monday, September 4.
The Alfonso Valdés Cabrera special school will be the venue for the provincial act at the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year. A new institution, located in the Campo Hermoso popular council, in San Juan y Martínez, and which will benefit 34 children with special educational needs (with intellectual disabilities).
In this school period, according to a report from the Provincial Directorate of Education, all schools will start, some of them with alternatives due to the damage caused by Hurricane Ian and Tropical Storm Idalia.
598 schools will function, of which 563 are pure and the rest are mixed. In this course, a nursery school is increased in the municipality of Guane and a primary school in La Palma, both rural.
Of the 410 Primary schools, it is estimated that more than 25 will have an enrollment between one to five students, and around 40 will take on six to 10 students.
Pinar del Río foresees a teaching coverage of 99.2 percent, which means around 10,530 teachers, to which are added other alternatives that will apply to Adults and Professional Technical Education.
They project the incorporation of 420 graduates of the Higher level, short and medium cycle, in addition to the cooperation of university students, from the Educando con amor task.
The entry of students from internal centers will be on Saturday, September 2 and Sunday, September 3.
Students from the IPVCE Federico Engels provincial centers, Tania la Guerrillera pedagogical school, Pedro Téllez, Rigoberto Fuentes, Primero de Mayo, EIDE Ormani Arenado and ESPA polytechnics will gather on Saturday, September 2nd.
The trip will be by bus from the usual points, at 10:00 am the ones from Minas de Matahambre, Mantua and La Palma will leave; while at 11:00 am it will be Sandino and Guane.
At two in the afternoon it corresponds to San Luis and San Juan y Martínez, also to Viñales, Consolación del Sur, Los Palacios and Pinar del Río.
Students from the municipalities of Mantua, Sandino, Guane and San Juan y Martínez will be concentrated in the railway stations of Guane, Isabel Rubio, Sábalo and San Juan y Martínez, and from these places they will travel by train.
In the case of San Luis, the School Transport buses will take them to the provincial centers of the city of Pinar del Río.
On Sunday the students of the Camilo Cienfuegos military school will enter at 10:00 am At two in the afternoon it corresponds to the polytechnic, pre-university and internal basic secondary schools of the municipalities, as well as those of the special schools, professional school of art (EPA) Raúl Sánchez and those of the EIDE of Primary education. Always from the usual points.
In Pinar del Río, 477 schools were damaged by Ian, of which 350 have been recovered and 127 are pending. Tropical storm Idalia recently damaged 52 schools, so there are currently 179 pending, a figure that covers the two weather events.
