NewsWhore
09-01-2006, 03:50 PM
The Millennium Objectives for education state that all children who begin elementary education should complete the cycle. However, the United Nations Development Program doubts that this goal will be reached in the DR. The UNDP states that there have been some advances in the country but there has not been success in keeping the children in the educational system. The country needed an investment of US$810 million for the 2005-2006 school year and US$901 million for the following one. However, according to information was published by Clave newspaper, investment in the former was only US$536 million and this year only US$624 million have been allocated.
During the last 25 years, investment in education has never exceeded 3% of the country's Gross National Product, which places the DR among the three Latin American countries with the lowest education spending. This even contravenes the country's own General Education Law, which establishes that the minimum investment in the sector should be 4% of GNP, as reported by Clave weekly newspaper. Average schooling in the DR is 4.8 years, third lowest after Haiti (2.8 years) and Guatemala (3.5 years).
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During the last 25 years, investment in education has never exceeded 3% of the country's Gross National Product, which places the DR among the three Latin American countries with the lowest education spending. This even contravenes the country's own General Education Law, which establishes that the minimum investment in the sector should be 4% of GNP, as reported by Clave weekly newspaper. Average schooling in the DR is 4.8 years, third lowest after Haiti (2.8 years) and Guatemala (3.5 years).
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