This document outlines support measures provided by the Spanish education system to students from disadvantaged social, economic, cultural, geographic or ethnic backgrounds. It describes programs that aim to promote equal access to education, including free pre-primary education, additional resources for schools, compensation for absenteeism, and scholarships. It also discusses support for students who cannot attend regular schools due to medical issues, hospitalization, or families' itinerant work. Autonomous communities are responsible for organizing alternatives to meet the needs of these students.

2. Supporting measures are directed to people, groups
or territorial fields in social, economic, cultural,
geographic and ethnic disadvantageous situations.

3. O Main intention: equality in the right of
education and therefore focused on
students with educational needs.
O Implemented in all the Autonomous
Communities.
O Regulated by the decrees on curricular
organization for Primary and Secondary
Education levels.
O These actions are defined as follows:

4. O Measures to guarantee the most suitable conditions for
schooling in Pre-Primary Education. The second cycle (3-6 years
old) is free and efforts are made for increasing publicly-funded
places for the first cycle as well (0-3 years old).
O Providing schools with human and material resources. Teachers
of Compensatory Education and creation of specific groups for
supporting students at risk of educational exclusion.
O Compensation plans at schools against school absenteeism such
as intercultural mediation services or different timetable for
libraries (out of school hours).

5. O The Spanish Ministry of Education provides
scholarships and study grants
O WHO ARE THEM FOR?
to students with unfavorable economic conditions
O WHAT ARE THEM FOR?
for covering travel expenses, urban transport,
residence, didactic material or the lack of work
income in order to prevent them dropping out the
school.

6. Authorities of the Autonomous Communities are in charge of
the necessary means and organizational systems
Students attend to schools in municipalities nearby (with facilities)
Colegio Rural Agrupado Grouping schools spread out
Itinerant teachers covering the specialities
With the same “Programación general anual” and the
“Proyecto educativo”

7. Cannot follow a regular schooling process
Authorities of the Autonomous Communities assures their schooling
supportive itinerant units
schooling programs and education support for students coming from
seasonal work groups
permanent teacher with the basic didactic resources

8. O The Autonomous Communities are in charge of organising diverse
alternatives for
students who cannot attend school because of medical
prescription
students hospitalized for a long time
services, centres and special units

9. Aclaraciones
O Facilities: the educational Authority provides free transport
services, school canteen and boarding school services.
O Grouping schools spread out: (Colegio Rural Agrupado) consisting
of grouping, from the organisational point of view, in a single
one several schools in nearby towns with little population.
O Cannot follow a regular schooling process These students cannot
follow a regular schooling process due to the itinerant work of
their families (circus workers, fair-goers, field pickers or similar)
O Students coming from seasonal work groups: Schooling these
children in the existing schools of the area or in prefabricated
classrooms with teachers from the compensatory education
program.