The Cascais City Council is building and rehabilitating four schools in the municipality with an investment of 68 million euros as part of the decentralization of powers, the Lisbon district authorities announced on Tuesday.
The investment concerns the construction of a new Cascais high school, as well as the expansion and retraining of the 2nd and 3rd cycles and the high schools of Ibn Mukan (Alcabides), São João do Estoril and Fernando López Graça (Parede), all based on an application. for funding under the Plan for Recovery and Resilience (PRR).
A statement from the Cascais City Council said that at a more advanced stage of construction is the Cascais High School, built from scratch, representing an investment of 26.4 million euros, of which 21.6 million euros will be covered by funds. from PRR.
The facility, whose work began in July 2023 and is due to be completed in 2025, will serve 1,320 students and will replace the current Cascais High School, built in 1974 and in a state of degradation.
The future Cascais High School will have a two-story building with 44 classrooms, an auditorium, a library and a gym.
In the case of the expansion and requalification works of the 2nd and 3rd cycles and the secondary schools of Ibn Mukan (Alcabides), São João do Estoril and Fernando López Graça (Parede), the process is at the stage of public tender and application for PRR funding . “is awaiting approval” and authorities believe it could begin by the end of the year.
The work includes increasing educational facilities, particularly for students with special educational needs, upgrading administration and teaching facilities, student support facilities, as well as libraries, classrooms and gyms.
The total investment in these three schools is approximately 42 million euros, and all work is planned to be completed by September 2027.
The municipality of Cascais expects the intervention in the four schools to benefit 13,000 students and about 5,000 teaching and non-teaching staff by improving “learning and working conditions.”
“Cascais had the opportunity to foresee investments in priority areas such as health and education, namely investments in the restoration and expansion of three schools and the construction of one from scratch, but we are also carrying out large-scale activities in all schools in the Municipality,” said the President of the Cascais City Council Carlos Carreiras (PSD) in a statement to Lusa.
The mayor recalled that over the past two years, the Cascais City Council has already invested 20 million euros in the restoration of schools, to which an investment of 68 million euros is now added.
As part of the process of decentralization of competencies in the field of education, from April 2022, most schools of the 2nd and 3rd cycle and secondary education came under the jurisdiction of municipalities.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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