The president of Sintra City Council and the education minister publicly disputed the figures reported by Fenprof, which indicated over 700 students without school places in the municipality. The mayor of Sintra assured that the students without placement are "much fewer" than the 700 referred to by the teachers' union.
The education minister, for his part, stated that the situation was "supposedly" resolved last week, suggesting that the school placement problems in the municipality have been overcome.
Fenprof, the teachers' federation, was the source that reported the existence of hundreds of students without a place in Sintra's schools, creating a conflict with local and national authorities over the actual scale of the problem.


