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 successively take place at the level of each educational unit:

• re-enrollment of children who are attending kindergarten in this school year and wish to attend it also in the 2018-2019 school year – will start on May 7;
• enrollment of new children will take place starting May 21.

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

Filling the available places, after the completion of the re-enrollment 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). According to Government Decision no. 1,252/2012 and within the available places, children aged between 2 and 3 years may also be enrolled in the small group.

If, in an educational unit, the number of enrollment requests exceeds the number of available 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/foster care/family placement 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 that educational unit;
• the existence of a medical certificate attesting the child's degree of disability.

The specific selection criteria (developed by each preschool education unit, approved by its Board of Administration and endorsed by the County School Inspectorate/of the Bucharest municipality by May 18) cannot be discriminatory and cannot include pre-registration lists. Also, the specific criteria will be applied only after the general criteria have been exhausted.

To ensure transparency in the re-enrollment/enrollment process, the management of preschool education 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 schooling plan for the 2018-2019 school year (by age groups: small, middle, large);
• the general and specific criteria for enrolling children;
• the number of children re-enrolled/enrolled daily (during the set period) out of the total available.

We mention that private preschool education units are also obliged to visibly display 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).