The Ministry of Education will manage three new daycare centers and add 0-3 classrooms to eight schools.

PalmStarting in the 2025/2026 academic year, the Ministry of Education and Universities, through the General Directorate of Early Childhood, Diversity, and Educational Improvement, will expand its direct involvement in the management of early childhood education centers (0-3 years) to three daycare centers and will add dedicated classrooms to eight primary and secondary schools throughout the Balearic Islands. Specifically, the new daycare centers managed by the Ministry will be the Escoleta Infantil (EI) Ca Baix Sol (Marratxí), the EI Santa Eulària, and the EI Sant Rafael (San Antonio de Portmany), with adapted classrooms for babies, children from 1 to 2 years old, and children from 2 to 3 years old, according to a statement released Thursday.

In addition, the CEIP Sant Carles (Santa Eulalia del Río), Guillem Ballester y Cerdó (Muro), Na Peñón (Cala Millor), Fornells, Gabriel Palmer (Estellencs), Miquel Porcel (Palma), Su Indioteria (Palma) and Caimari will incorporate classrooms. The Regional Ministry has recalled that the previous academic year, 2024-2025, the first cycle of Early Childhood Education was already incorporated in five CEIPs on the Islands (Anselm Turmeda, Son Pisà, Joan Veny y Clar, Virgen de la Consolación and Navidad Campaner Arrom).

Education has highlighted that the Balearic Islands are "the first autonomous community to have promoted a specific educational agreement system for the first cycle of Early Childhood Education." This measure, along with the free tuition introduced in public centers and municipal daycare centers with an agreement starting in the 2023-2024 academic year, seeks to "promote equity, accessibility, and the consolidation of a quality educational model from the earliest ages."