The Ministry of National Education informs that, for the enrollment in preschool education of children aged between 3 and 6 years, the following stages will take place successively at the level of each educational institution:

• re-enrollment of children who are attending kindergarten this school year and wish to attend in the 2018-2019 school year as well - will begin on May 7;
• enrollment of new children will take place starting May 21.

The schedule for re-enrollments and enrollments will be set by the management of the educational institution and will be posted, in a visible place, in each kindergarten, for the information of parents and interested public, including on the institution's website (if any), and possibly on the school inspectorates' websites.

The filling of vacant places, after the re-enrollment process is completed, will generally be done in descending order by age groups, as follows: large group (5-year-old children), middle group (4-year-old children) and small group (3-year-old children). Based on Government Decision no. 1.252/2012 and within the limits of available places, children aged between 2 and 3 years may also be enrolled in the small group.

If, within an educational institution, the number of enrollment applications is greater than the number of available places, general and specific tie-breaking criteria will be applied successively.

The general tie-breaking criteria are as follows:

• existence of a document proving that a child is an orphan of both parents (the situation of a child coming from an orphanage/a placement center/family placement is considered equivalent to the situation of a child orphaned of both parents);
• existence of a document proving the child is an orphan of one parent;
• existence of a brother/sister enrolled in the respective educational institution;
• existence of a medical certificate attesting the child’s classification in a handicap degree.

The specific tie-breaking criteria (developed by each preschool educational institution, approved by its Board of Administration and endorsed by the County School Inspectorate/of Bucharest municipality until May 18) cannot be discriminatory and cannot include pre-enrollment lists. Also, the specific tie-breaking criteria will only be applied after the general criteria have been exhausted.

In order to ensure transparency of the re-enrollment/enrollment process, the management of preschool educational institutions will post, in clear view, for all those interested, the following information:

• the institution’s capacity (the number of children it was designed for);
• the number of places approved in the schooling plan for the 2018-2019 school year (by age groups: small, middle, large);
• the general and specific criteria for children's enrollment;
• the number of children re-enrolled/enrolled daily (during the established period) out of the total available.

We mention that private preschool educational institutions also have the obligation to display in a visible place information regarding their status, specifically whether they are authorized to operate provisionally or are accredited by the Agency for Quality Assurance in Pre-university Education (ARACIP).