TIJUANA.- This week the state administration announced that a new high school educational space will be available in Villa del Campo neighborhood. Baja California’s Governor, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, revealed that the work is being done immediately so that this area of the municipality has first-rate facilities.

In an event that took place this Wednesday, Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development (SEDATU), Román Meyer Falcón gave to Tijuana’s municipal president, Montserrat Caballero, the keys to the facilities that belong to the new high school.

After this, the mayor herself gave the facilities, through an agreement, to the Governor of Baja California, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda.

At this same event, the Governor announced that the School of Baccalaureates of Baja California (COBACH) is ready to start the enrollment period so as to begin classes next August.

The Governor of Baja California, together with SEDATU and Tijuana’s Municipal Hall, received the facilities of what will be the next high school in Villa del Campo.

“Our young people, our youth, will have a space to develop, a high school that will be part of the COBACH system. We invite them to enroll. We want to thank the President for this Urban Improvement program, for thinking about improving life conditions for those who have less, for communities that have been permanently and historically forgotten. Today the Federation delivers to the Tijuana Municipality very valuable facilities and it has delivered it to us, so that it can be managed under the COBACH system”, the Governor stated.

The Head of SEDATU thanked the mayor of Tijuana and the Governor for their shown willingness in activating this area for educational purposes.

An investment of 42.7 million pesos will be carried out here, and the facilities will have classrooms, laboratories, administrative offices, basketball and showball courts, and other installations.

Also, the Federal Government acquired the necessary equipment and furniture and a community activation plan is being contemplated, so that people of the community can get involved in cleaning and taking care of the facilities.

Some of the goals of incorporating this school to the COBACH system is to hire educational, maintenance, and front desk staff.

At the event the following people were present: Daniel Octavio Fajardo Ortiz, Subsecretary of SEDATU; Jorge Cabrera Jiménez, Technical Coordinator of the Secretary’s Office of SEDATU; Gerardo Solís Benavides, Education Secretary of Baja California, Juan Eugenio Carpio Ascencio, General Director of the School of Baccalaureates (COBACH), as well as, as part of Tijuana’s Municipal Hall, Jorge Salazar Miramontes, Secretary of the Interior, and Miguel Ángel Bujanda Ruíz, Secretary of Urban, Territorial, and Environmental Development. Jesús Alejandro Ruíz Uribe, only federal representative in Baja California, was also present.

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