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-registration of children who attend kindergarten in this school year and want to attend it in the 2018-2019 school year - will begin on May 7;
• registration of newly enrolled children will take place starting May 21.

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

The allocation of available spots, after finalizing the re-registration process, will generally be made in descending order of age groups, as follows: the large group (5-year-old children), the middle group (4-year-old children), and the small group (3-year-old children). Based on Government Decision no. 1.252/2012 and within the available spots, children aged between 2 and 3 years may also be enrolled in the small group.

If, in an educational unit, the number of registration requests is higher than the number of available spots, general selection criteria and specific selection criteria will be applied successively.

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 a children’s home/a placement center/foster care is assimilated to the situation of a child orphaned by both parents);
• existence of a document proving that they are an orphan of a single 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 (developed by each preschool educational unit, approved by its board of administration, and approved by the County School Inspectorate/of Bucharest municipality until May 18) cannot be discriminatory and cannot include pre-registration lists. Also, the specific selection criteria will only be applied after all general criteria have been exhausted.

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

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

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