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Sintra: City Council and Government deny over 700 students without school spots
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Sintra: City Council and Government deny over 700 students without school spots

SAPO Notícias15 September 2026 at 12:53

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.

Why this matters

Readers in Sintra need to know whether their children have guaranteed places in local schools, given the conflicting information between the municipality, the government and Fenprof. The denial by the authorities may generate distrust and hinder pressure for concrete solutions to the lack of school places.

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