Low investment in education

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A First Educational Monitoring Study released by the Socio-Educational Forum indicates that the Dominican government has cut short the education sector through 2011 by RD$312 billion. In 1999, Congress passed a bill ruling that 4% of GDP had to be allocated to the education sector. The study established that in the past 20 years, the highest investment the government made in a year in education was 1.8% of GDP. From 2008-2011 the budgetary debt for education, in regards to the lawful 4% of GDP, reached RD$165 billion, as reported in Diario Libre.

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