The Ministry of National Education informs that, in order to include 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 attending kindergarten in this school year and wishing to attend in the 2018-2019 school year as well - will begin on May 7;
• enrollment of new children will run from May 21.

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

The filling of free 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 can also be enrolled in the small group.

If, in an educational unit, the number of enrollment requests is higher than the number of free places, general selection criteria 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 an orphan of both parents (the situation of a child coming from an orphanage/a foster care center/family placement is assimilated to the situation of a child orphaned by both parents);
• the existence of a document proving that the child is an orphan of one parent;
• the existence of a brother/sister enrolled in that educational unit;
• the existence of a medical certificate attesting to the child’s degree of disability.

The specific selection criteria (developed by each preschool educational unit, approved by its Board of Administration, and endorsed by the County School Inspectorate/the Bucharest City School Inspectorate by May 18) cannot be discriminatory and cannot include pre-registration 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 preschool educational units will publicly display, for all those interested, the following information:

• the capacity of the institution (the number of children it is designed for);
• 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 children's enrollment;
• the number of children re-enrolled/enrolled daily (during the established period) out of the total available.

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