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:

• re-enrollment of children who attend kindergarten in this school year and wish to attend in the 2018-2019 school year as well - will begin on May 7;
• enrollment of newly arrived children will take place from May 21.

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

The filling of free places, after the re-enrollment process is completed, will be done, as a rule, 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 greater 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 a children's home/foster care center/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 the respective educational unit;
• the existence of a medical certificate stating that the child is classified as having a 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 Municipality until 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 shall post, in plain sight, 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 children's enrollment;
• the number of children re-enrolled/enrolled daily (during the set period) out of the total available.

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