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01-28-2010, 02:40 PM
Education Minister Melanio Paredes told the audience at the monthly American Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting that US$905 million is needed to build 6,000 new classrooms and repair another 8,000 that are in poor condition. American Chamber of Commerce president Alejandro Pena Prieto said that the country urgently needed to make qualitative and quantitative improvements to the education system. If these are not carried out the DR will not be able to successfully compete on international markets, he said.
The Ministry of Education signed an agreement with AmCham for the implementation of the American Chamber of Commerce program for companies to become sponsors of public schools, contributing to improvements in infrastructure, equipment and teacher training. "It is obvious that public sector education funding at a non-university level has not been given priority in government finances compared to expectations and demands," he said at the luncheon.
See the speech at http://amcham.org.do/anm/templates/discursos.asp?articleid=267&zoneid=9
The Minister of Education says that the educational system has a deficit of 17,500 classrooms. Speaking on Uno + Uno TV show, he said that the government would have to build 3,500 classrooms a year during the next 5 years to catch up. Dominican schools have an average of 12 classrooms. Last year, the Ministry of Education built 1,124 new classrooms.
Marien Aristy Capitan, writing in Hoy, points out that education expenditure in 2009 barely reached 2.10% of the DR's Gross Domestic Product, when a law was passed that required it to be 4% of GDP and 16% of the National Budget.
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The Ministry of Education signed an agreement with AmCham for the implementation of the American Chamber of Commerce program for companies to become sponsors of public schools, contributing to improvements in infrastructure, equipment and teacher training. "It is obvious that public sector education funding at a non-university level has not been given priority in government finances compared to expectations and demands," he said at the luncheon.
See the speech at http://amcham.org.do/anm/templates/discursos.asp?articleid=267&zoneid=9
The Minister of Education says that the educational system has a deficit of 17,500 classrooms. Speaking on Uno + Uno TV show, he said that the government would have to build 3,500 classrooms a year during the next 5 years to catch up. Dominican schools have an average of 12 classrooms. Last year, the Ministry of Education built 1,124 new classrooms.
Marien Aristy Capitan, writing in Hoy, points out that education expenditure in 2009 barely reached 2.10% of the DR's Gross Domestic Product, when a law was passed that required it to be 4% of GDP and 16% of the National Budget.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)