Improve the quality of school transport to ensure efficient service to students of Sicilian municipalities. This is the goal of the announcement published by the Regional Department of Education and Professional Training, which allocates 2 million euros for the purchase of school bus to be used, in the urban and suburban field, also with the help of voluntary associations.
“The right to education is also guaranteed through adequate, efficient and quality public transport services – says Councilor Mimmo Turano – With this intervention we give concrete help to the local communities and, in particular, to the small municipalities, allocating them for the purchase of new vehicles, we enhance the transport service and, at the same time, we assure our students and students the right to education that also passes from the possibility of reaching the school institutions more easily”.
The circular, in fact, is intended, as a priority, to the municipalities of up to 15 thousand inhabitants (individual or as leader) who have not already benefited from an similar regional, national or community contribution in the three-year period 2023-2025. The maximum eligible amount is equal to 75 thousand euros.