Education allocates 366,673 euros to expand the Santos Mártires nursery school

The Minister of Education and Employment of the Government of La Rioja, Miguel Ángel Fernández Torroba, has approved the seventh modification of the Ministry’s Strategic Action Plan for the 2024-2026 period, which incorporates a new line of subsidies intended to finance the expansion of the “Santos Mártires” First Cycle Early Childhood Education School in the municipality of Calahorra. The decision is formalized through Resolution 92/2026, of November 4, published in the Official Gazette of La Rioja number 216, of November 9, 2026, in section III of Other Provisions and Acts. The regulation enters the plan with an allocation of 366,673.55 euros and will be executed through a direct grant agreement with the Calahorra City Council.

The legal framework of the strategic plan

The modification is supported by article 8.1 of the General Subsidies Law 38/2003, of November 17, which requires administrative bodies proposing the establishment of subsidies to specify the objectives, deadlines, foreseeable costs, and sources of financing in a strategic plan. This same requirement is contained in article 178.2 of the Public Finance Law of La Rioja 11/2013, of October 21, and is developed by Decree 14/2006, of February 16, which regulates the legal regime of subsidies in the regional public sector.

The plan is thus configured as the planning instrument for the Ministry’s public promotion policies and includes both strategic subsidy lines and the nominative transfers approved each year in the annex of the General Budget Law of the Autonomous Community. The authority to approve these modifications corresponds to the heads of the various ministries.

The consolidated and modified text of the plan was approved by Resolution 62/2025, of September 15, published in the Official Gazette of La Rioja number 182, of September 19, 2025. It was subsequently modified by Resolution 37/2026, of April 23, which approved the sixth modification; the one now published is the seventh.

What the new Line 8 will finance

The modification introduces, within general objective IV of Educational Infrastructure and its first objective, Line 8 of the agreement with the Calahorra City Council for the expansion and equipping of the municipal preschool. The published detail is as follows:

• Object: to collaborate with the city council in financing the drafting fees for the works project, the expansion works, the furniture, and the equipment of the EIPC “Santos Mártires” for its implementation.
• Beneficiary: Calahorra City Council.
• Grant method: direct, via agreement.
• Funding: own funds.
• Budget line: 08.04.3221.76101.
• Estimated cost: 366,673.55 euros in 2026, an amount that coincides with the total of the line.

The file, number 202611050125454, is assigned to the General Directorate of Educational Management and affects the area of competence relating to “the management of the economic endowment of public educational centers and the supervision of the justification of expenses,” pursuant to Article 13, paragraph c), of Decree 53/2023, of July 14.

Demand for places and family reconciliation

The report accompanying the resolution justifies the processing due to the increase in the demand for places recorded in the aforementioned school and the need to assist in the reconciliation of family and work life in the town. From that starting point, the Department maintains that the periodic review and updating of the approved plans allows for deciding which subsidies must be modified, replaced, or eliminated when they do not achieve the planned objectives of effectiveness, efficiency, and economy.

The resolution consists of two sections: the approval of the seventh modification of the plan and its annexes, and the order for the publication and dissemination of the document in the Official Gazette of La Rioja. The text was signed in Logroño on November 4, 2026, by the Councilor for Education and Employment, and has the favorable report of the General Directorate of Budgetary Control, issued on November 3, 2026.

Impact for Calahorra

The operation ensures an identified budget line with a determined beneficiary to expand a first-cycle nursery school in a municipality that, according to the file itself, faces an increase in applications for places. The agreement with the Calahorra City Council covers the entire chain of the work—from the technical project to the furniture and equipment—and is linked to budget line 08.04.3221.76101, which allows for the monitoring of its execution and the justification of expenditure within the 2026 budget.

Source: Official Gazette of La Rioja, no. 216, of November 9, 2026, section III (Other Provisions and Acts), pp. 18981-18982 (official reference: BOR-A-20261109-III–4212, III.4212).