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12-16-2010, 04:50 PM
The Coalition for Dignified Education did not accept the proposal that President Leonel Fernandez made yesterday at the Presidential Palace to assign RD$10 billion of the mid-year review of the budget to education. The Coalition is demanding that 4% of the GDP should be included in the 2011 National Budget under study in the Chamber of Deputies, and has identified sources for the increase in funds for education. The mid-year review allocates any surplus funds. The Coalition is demanding that the additional funds for education should come from government austerity and a change in spending priorities. "The only credible and acceptable pact is that the budget law should comply with the 4% allocation. The President's proposal violates laws and is illegitimate and it has been proven that there is no technical obstacle for the budget to contain the 4%," Coalition spokesman Father Mario Serrano told Listin Diario.
The Coalition, and a recent Gallup Poll showing 91% nationwide support for the call for government to prioritize education in the budget, in an unprecedented action, motivated the deputies to delay the approval of the National Budget submitted by President Fernandez. The legislators will meet again to study the budget.
Father Serrano said that the mechanisms to monitor the use of funds for education have been created, including an observatory, to deal with any concerns about how the funds would be spent.
Serrano said that the President's proposal was "more of the same" the Fernandez administration has proposed over the past six years. "President Fernandez's offer of a pact to gradually increase the funds through 2018 is a way of ignoring the many pacts that have been harmonized by society and many times violated," Serrano.
Coalition activists, holding yellow umbrellas, return to protest for an increase in funds for public education outside Congress.
Coalition lawyer Elizabeth Mateo told 7dias.com.do that if the budget is passed violating Law 66-97, the approved budget law would be taken to the Supreme Court of Justice, on the grounds that it violates the Constitution. The Coalition has the support of 200 organizations.
The 4% campaign for more funds for education went viral on the Internet, with the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaU-tVzusIw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaU-tVzusIw)
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The Coalition, and a recent Gallup Poll showing 91% nationwide support for the call for government to prioritize education in the budget, in an unprecedented action, motivated the deputies to delay the approval of the National Budget submitted by President Fernandez. The legislators will meet again to study the budget.
Father Serrano said that the mechanisms to monitor the use of funds for education have been created, including an observatory, to deal with any concerns about how the funds would be spent.
Serrano said that the President's proposal was "more of the same" the Fernandez administration has proposed over the past six years. "President Fernandez's offer of a pact to gradually increase the funds through 2018 is a way of ignoring the many pacts that have been harmonized by society and many times violated," Serrano.
Coalition activists, holding yellow umbrellas, return to protest for an increase in funds for public education outside Congress.
Coalition lawyer Elizabeth Mateo told 7dias.com.do that if the budget is passed violating Law 66-97, the approved budget law would be taken to the Supreme Court of Justice, on the grounds that it violates the Constitution. The Coalition has the support of 200 organizations.
The 4% campaign for more funds for education went viral on the Internet, with the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaU-tVzusIw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaU-tVzusIw)
http://educaciondigna.com
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)