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

• re-enrollment of children who attend kindergarten this school year and wish to attend it in the 2018-2019 school year as well - will start on May 7;
• enrollment of new children will be carried out starting May 21.

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

The filling of vacant places, after the re-enrollment process is completed, will be done, as a rule, in descending order of the age groups, as follows: big group (children of 5 years), middle group (children of 4 years) and small group (children of 3 years). According to Government Decision no. 1.252/2012 and within the 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 applications is higher than the number of available places, general selection criteria and specific selection criteria will be applied, successively.

The general selection criteria are the following:

• the existence of a document proving that a child is orphaned by both parents (the situation of a child coming from an orphanage/a placement center/foster care is assimilated to the situation of a child orphaned by both parents);
• the existence of a document proving that the child is orphaned by only one parent;
• the existence of a brother/sister enrolled in the respective educational unit;
• the existence of a medical certificate attesting the child's disability degree.

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

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

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

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