Pre-school education for children four years becomes … – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

Pre-school education for children four years becomes universal in 2016/2017

The state will have to guarantee a network for the children four years have vague in preschool, but the government needs to consider the possibility of going down the bar up to three years.

Pre-school education is to become universal for children four years of age in the academic year 2016/2017. But it is already open the possibility that the age at which the state is obliged to ensure a network for these children down power for three years.

It was published in the Official Gazette Law No. 65/2015 that makes changes to another establishing the compulsory education system and which enshrined the universality of preschool education “from the year they reach the age of five.” Now this will be devoted to “all children from the year they reach the age of four.”

“The universality (…) is subject to the State’s duty to ensure the existence of a network of pre-school education that allows the registration of all children covered by them and to ensure that this frequency is carried out on gratuitous basis of the educational component, “says the original legislation (Law No. 85/2009) which remains to this modification.

The law gives the government 180 days to regulating “the rules governing the universality of pre-school education in respect of children who reach the age of four, so as to ensure their implementation from the academic year 2016/2017 “. So next academic year, 2015/2016, will still only children five years with this right enshrined.

In this regulation that will charge these six months, the Executive will have to evaluate not only “the implementation of universal preschool education for children four years old” as also “measurement mechanisms of the possibility of extending the universality children 3 years old and the definition of the duration.”