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

• re-enrollment of children who are attending kindergarten this school year and wish to attend it 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 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 school inspectorates' websites.

Filling of the remaining places, after the re-enrollment process is completed, 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 limits of available places, children aged between 2 and 3 years may also be enrolled in the small group.

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

The general tie-breaking criteria are as follows:

• the existence of a document proving that a child is orphaned of 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 of both parents);
• the existence of a document proving that the child is orphaned of one parent;
• the existence of a brother/sister enrolled in the respective educational institution;
• the existence of a medical certificate certifying the child's degree of disability.

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

For ensuring the transparency of the re-enrollment/enrollment process, the managements of preschool educational institutions will visibly display, for all interested, the following information:

• the institution's capacity (number of children it was designed for);
• the number of seats approved by 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 set period) of the total available.

We mention that private preschool educational institutions are also required to display in a visible place the 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).