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02-25-2010, 02:20 PM
Education Minister Melanio Paredes has told Hoy newspaper that his department's priority is to build 9,000 more classrooms by 2012 and to train primary level teachers in the use of the content to be taught to students in 2013. He said all would depend on the flow of resources from the government.
He said the Ten Year Education Plan calls for the government to assign US$2.29 billion to teacher training in the next 3 years, US$905 million for classroom preparation, and US$300 million for building classrooms. He said that this year the budget requested was RD$44.04 billion, but the government only assigned it US$38 billion. "I hope that we have been able to convince many people and we will be assigned the difference in complementary budget allotments," he said. "We need to step up the pace because we are in the last place in the region when it comes to education quality." He said that RD$54.4 billion will be needed in 2011, RD$66 billion in 2012 and RD$79.9 billion in 2013. By then we would have accomplished having 4.2% of the Gross Domestic Product invested in education, as is established in the Ten Year Education Plan. He said, "The reality is that there has never been an extraordinary effort to improve the investment in education."
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He said the Ten Year Education Plan calls for the government to assign US$2.29 billion to teacher training in the next 3 years, US$905 million for classroom preparation, and US$300 million for building classrooms. He said that this year the budget requested was RD$44.04 billion, but the government only assigned it US$38 billion. "I hope that we have been able to convince many people and we will be assigned the difference in complementary budget allotments," he said. "We need to step up the pace because we are in the last place in the region when it comes to education quality." He said that RD$54.4 billion will be needed in 2011, RD$66 billion in 2012 and RD$79.9 billion in 2013. By then we would have accomplished having 4.2% of the Gross Domestic Product invested in education, as is established in the Ten Year Education Plan. He said, "The reality is that there has never been an extraordinary effort to improve the investment in education."
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