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

• re-enrollment of children who already attend kindergarten in 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 established by the management of the educational unit and will be displayed in a visible place, in each kindergarten, to inform parents and the interested public, including on its website (if existing), and possibly on the websites of the school inspectorates.

The allocation of available seats, after the completion of the re-enrollment process, will generally be made in descending order of age groups, as follows: big 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 limit of available places, children aged between 2 and 3 years can also be enrolled in the small group.

If, in an educational unit, the number of enrollment requests exceeds the number of available seats, general and specific selection criteria will be successively applied.

The general selection 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 foster center/family placement is assimilated to the situation of a child orphaned of both parents);
• existence of a document proving that the child is an orphan of one parent;
• existence of a brother/sister enrolled in the respective educational unit;
• existence of a medical certificate certifying the child's degree of disability.

The specific selection criteria (elaborated by each preschool educational unit, approved by its Board of Administration and approved by the County/Bucharest School Inspectorate by May 18) cannot be discriminatory and cannot include pre-enrollment lists. Also, the specific selection criteria will only be applied after exhausting the general criteria.

To ensure the transparency of the re-enrollment/enrollment process, the management of preschool educational units will display, visibly, for all interested parties, the following information:

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

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