The Official Gazette of Castilla-La Mancha (DOCM) will publish on Monday, May 27, the resolution of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports calling for the direct granting of aidconsisting of the use of textbooks by the … students of Primary Education and ESO, and school cafeteria for students of the second cycle of Early Childhood and Primary Education, enrolled in centers supported by public funds in Castilla-La Mancha for the 2024/2025 academic year.
This was stated by the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Amador Pastor, in a visit he made to the school cafeteria of the public school ‘San José de Calasanz’, in Los Yébenes (Toledo). On the visit he was accompanied by the mayor of Los Yébenes, Jesús Pérez, as reported by the Board in a press release.
Amador Pastor has explained that Castilian-La Mancha families who want to request the aforementioned aid lines will be able to do so. from May 28 to June 19, both inclusive. To do this, they must make their request, as usual, through the EducamosCLM platform.
The Minister of Education has told the media present that it is planned to grant around 105,000 grants in total, of which around 80,000 will be for textbooks and around 25,000 for school meals.
As usual, school lunch scholarships will be 50 percent or 100 percent and will be awarded according to family income. For their part, those for textbooks will be organized according to two sections, also established according to family income.
To finance all these scholarships, the counselor continued explaining, “the Government of Castilla-La Mancha has given the green light to a budget item of more than 11,600,000 euros, of which almost nine million euros will be used to exclusively finance school cafeteria scholarships.
“This financial amount, the one referring to aid for school meals, has increased by one million euros, as a consequence of the increase in in-person scholarship recipients in recent years,” Pastor said.
The Minister of Education, Culture and Sports has also told the media present that this year’s order will be the last order in which school lunch aid and textbook aid will go in the same call.
Focused on the visit to the ‘San José de Calasanz’ public school, Amador Pastor has valued the work it carries out, both from a pedagogical perspective and through the different complementary services it offers, among which are the dining room service school.
Specifically, he recalled that the center, which has 454 students distributed at different levels of Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, serves 21 diners, of which 16 are on scholarships.
