NewsWhore
02-25-2010, 02:20 PM
In an interview with Hoy newspaper, Education Minister Melanio Paredes said that teachers working in the public sector make more money than those working in the private sector, overall. He mentioned that a public school teacher working two shifts can make RD$25,000 a month. But he said the problem is that they have had access to loans, so that when the payments are discounted from wages, their take-home pay is considerably reduced. Paredes said that the teachers have access to loans through the Teachers Cooperative and the governmental Banco de Reservas and that they take on lots of loans. He says this needs to be regulated.
In another revealing statement, he said that this year he had brought in Mexican scholastic book experts to test books by locally based publishing companies. The advisors rejected 308 of 596 textbooks submitted by the schoolbook publishers. He said he had chosen to use the advisors because of the ties the local companies had established with people in the Ministry who were known to decide on which books to purchase for the public schools. The books were rejected on the grounds of gaps in content and lack of effectiveness in explaining the contents.
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In another revealing statement, he said that this year he had brought in Mexican scholastic book experts to test books by locally based publishing companies. The advisors rejected 308 of 596 textbooks submitted by the schoolbook publishers. He said he had chosen to use the advisors because of the ties the local companies had established with people in the Ministry who were known to decide on which books to purchase for the public schools. The books were rejected on the grounds of gaps in content and lack of effectiveness in explaining the contents.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)