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01-10-2007, 04:50 PM
The Dominican Senate has approved a measure that will limit the Ministry of Education's ability to change public school textbooks. The proposal gives the National Education Council the capacity to make rational use of the texts in keeping with the nation's socio-economic conditions. The proposal, authored by Santiago PLD Senator Francisco Dominguez Brito, establishes a four-year term for texts. In the past, texts were changed quite frequently, often on a yearly basis, and this created a huge economic pressure on poor families. The proposal was passed unanimously by the 29 senators present.
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