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:

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

The schedule for re-registrations and registrations will be established 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 its website (if it exists), and possibly on the websites of school inspectorates.

The allocation of available places, after the completion of the re-registration process, will generally be done in descending order of 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 limit of available places, children aged between 2 and 3 can also be enrolled in the small group.

If, within an educational unit, the number of registration requests exceeds the number of available places, general and specific selection criteria will be applied, successively.

The general selection criteria are as follows:

• the existence of a document proving that a child is orphan of both parents (the situation of a child from a children's home/a foster care center/foster care is assimilated to the situation of a child orphan of both parents);
• the existence of a document proving that the child is orphan of one parent;
• the existence of a brother/sister enrolled in that educational unit;
• the 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 Administrative Council and endorsed by the County/Bucharest School Inspectorate until May 18) cannot be discriminatory and cannot include pre-registration lists. Also, the specific selection criteria will be applied only after exhausting the general criteria.

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

• the capacity of the institution (the number of children for which it was designed);
• the number of places approved by the schooling plan for the 2018-2019 school year (by age groups: small, middle, large);
• the general and specific criteria for registering children;
• the number of children re-registered/registered daily (within the established period) from the total available.

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