NewsWhore
05-10-2011, 02:50 PM
Education Minister Josefina Pimentel has drafted a plan to improve the nation's educational system through teacher training, 15,000 new classrooms, compliance with school hours, more economic resources, and science labs and libraries.
In a report in Listin Diario, she revealed that the state spends RD$19,000 on each student in the system. However, she also noted that an estimated 400,000 children do not attend school, and that the desertion rate is just 3.4% or some 44,000 students in the primary grades (1st to 8th), while in middle school it goes to 6.6% and in high school it climbs to 9.3% for freshmen, 6.8% for sophomores and 5.7% for juniors.
"There are plenty of material and sanitary inadequacies and the failure to comply with the required school hours is a well-known fact", she said. The minister also admitted that there were tremendous "challenges" but that she has been trying to solve some of the long-standing issues since her recent appointment.
http://www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2011/5/10/187581/Poca-clase-y-muchas-precariedades
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In a report in Listin Diario, she revealed that the state spends RD$19,000 on each student in the system. However, she also noted that an estimated 400,000 children do not attend school, and that the desertion rate is just 3.4% or some 44,000 students in the primary grades (1st to 8th), while in middle school it goes to 6.6% and in high school it climbs to 9.3% for freshmen, 6.8% for sophomores and 5.7% for juniors.
"There are plenty of material and sanitary inadequacies and the failure to comply with the required school hours is a well-known fact", she said. The minister also admitted that there were tremendous "challenges" but that she has been trying to solve some of the long-standing issues since her recent appointment.
http://www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2011/5/10/187581/Poca-clase-y-muchas-precariedades
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)