A total of 76,200 students will have free textbooks next year, 7.44 percent more than the current cycle, as explained on Monday by the Minister of Education Rocío Lucas. Tomorrow the resolution of the last call for aid will be published in the Official Gazette of the Community, which includes “all applicants whose parents have an income of less than 21,195.05 euros in 2020.”
With this resolution, 37 percent of the total number of students enrolled in compulsory education acquire the right to free use of textbooks, as detailed by the Minister of Education in an act of homage to 120 retired teachers in Soria.
In this sense, the extension in this announcement of the income thresholds to be a beneficiary, establishing it at 2.68 times the Iprem -in previous courses it was 2.5 and 2.65- has favored that 5,274 more students can obtain books free for the 2022-2023 academic year.
In addition, 28 percent of the beneficiaries correspond to groups of special protection.
The maximum amounts that each student receives range from 280 euros in Primary Education to 350 euros for Compulsory Secondary Education students. To reach all these families, the Junta de Castilla y León has allocated a budget of 17 million euros.
Finally, Rocío Lucas has stressed that another 38,250 families, with an income higher than that collected in the call, will be able to access the copies of the textbook banks of the educational centers in September if there is availability.
