The governor Osvaldo Jaldo On Monday morning, new classrooms for the initial level were inaugurated at the Escuela de la Patria Dr. Manuel Belgrano in San Miguel de Tucumán.
The President was accompanied by the Minister of Education, Susana Montaldo, your pair of Health, Luis Medina Ruizthe head of the Provincial Institute for the Fight against Alcoholism (IPLA), Dante Lozathe director of the school establishment, Carina Segura.
Secretaries, level directors and supervisors from the Ministry of Education also accompanied.
The work consists of the partial delivery of four classrooms, a teachers’ room with a private bathroom and a disabled bathroom for the expansion, refunctionalization and general renovation. Includes complete furniture plus games. Overflow spaces, pergolas and outdoor equipment were also created.
With these new works, three 5-year-old Kindergarten rooms and a first grade will operate, where about 86 students attend. The investment is around 200 million pesos.
This work, which the Governor left inaugurated, coincides with the birth of General Manuel Belgrano, on June 3, 1770.
“We are officially opening facilities for the children of the Initial Level. The project in this school has been carried out with resources donated by a great hero like Belgrano,” Jaldo began by saying in reference to the fact that the establishment was donated by the General on March 31, 1813 as a product of the recognition that the State gave him. he did for his triumphs in the Battles of Tucumán and Salta.
And he added: “Belgrano was a great statesman, lawyer, fighter, he had a great sense of solidarity and made decisions with everything that has to do with educating our children. In that sense, he made the donation and this school was built.”
Along these lines, the President remarked: “With the comings and goings and changes in Government, we once again made a great effort in conversation with the national Government and with resources from the province, to leave this initial room enabled today.”
To conclude, the Governor thanked the educational community and the parents “who were patient with us and today we inaugurated the facilities for the children who are studying today and for those who will come to study here in the future.”
For her part, the Minister of Education celebrated the coincidence of this inauguration with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Manuel Belgrano “who fought so hard for Education and so that Indians, mestizos, blacks, and women could have access to Education.”
“Education as a primary element to maintain democracy and better democratic coexistence among citizens,” he stressed.
Regarding the rooms enabled, Montaldo assured that they will allow many children in Tucumán to have new spaces. “Hopefully we can finish other rooms and have gardens of 3, 4 and 5,” he said and thanked the teachers who held classes for the last three months virtually.
In that sense, he said that the new classrooms guarantee full presence in primary school.
Finally, Carina Segura concluded “the educational community celebrates this day because, after a virtuality/in-person system that we had last year, we are happy because we decompressed classrooms and we can say that enough of virtuality and all students will come safely. in person. Thanks to the commitment and support of the governor, we were able to inaugurate these works.”
