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05-16-2012, 05:30 PM
At a meeting with Listin Diario, Danilo Medina has laid out his plans for his first 100 days in office should he win the election.
He said that he would ensure that education received 4% of GDP and would increase the school day to eight hours including breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. He also said during a four-year term he would build 24,000 classrooms, half of which are needed to extend the school day. He also said that should this project need more than 4% of GDP then it would receive it as he considered it vital to change the education model to one of quality and inclusivity.
He acknowledged that at present only 42% of poorer people finish their primary education and only 12% achieve 12 years of schooling, and less than 1% go on to finish at university.
Medina also went on the record as saying that there is a need to expand sports programs in public schools. He said sports programs would be part of the proposed extension of school hours to eight hours a day. He announced that his government would create programs to take sports to the masses. He promised to save existing sports installations. "I don't think the country needs much investment because the infrastructure is there. What we have to do is fix what we have," he said.
"When I talk about extending, I mean to add art, sports and culture to school programs," he said, as reported in El Caribe.
Another of his first measures will be to implement social and economic policies to take 1,600,000 Dominicans out of poverty, and increasing the size of the middle class so that it consists of 60% of the population. He said that he was convinced that a country that did not strengthen and increase its middle class had no future
He added that he wished to establish a University of Academic Excellence where the best brains in the country could go, and it would specialize in mathematics, physics and chemistry. He deplored the face that the country was in 115th place out of 115 countries when it came to mathematics and 113th in science.
Danilo Medina is also profiled in Diario Libre today.
www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/5/16/232580/Danilo-detalla-su-plan-de-100-dias (http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/5/16/232580/Danilo-detalla-su-plan-de-100-dias)
www.diariolibre.com/movil/noticias_det.php?id=336276 (http://www.diariolibre.com/movil/noticias_det.php?id=336276)
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He said that he would ensure that education received 4% of GDP and would increase the school day to eight hours including breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. He also said during a four-year term he would build 24,000 classrooms, half of which are needed to extend the school day. He also said that should this project need more than 4% of GDP then it would receive it as he considered it vital to change the education model to one of quality and inclusivity.
He acknowledged that at present only 42% of poorer people finish their primary education and only 12% achieve 12 years of schooling, and less than 1% go on to finish at university.
Medina also went on the record as saying that there is a need to expand sports programs in public schools. He said sports programs would be part of the proposed extension of school hours to eight hours a day. He announced that his government would create programs to take sports to the masses. He promised to save existing sports installations. "I don't think the country needs much investment because the infrastructure is there. What we have to do is fix what we have," he said.
"When I talk about extending, I mean to add art, sports and culture to school programs," he said, as reported in El Caribe.
Another of his first measures will be to implement social and economic policies to take 1,600,000 Dominicans out of poverty, and increasing the size of the middle class so that it consists of 60% of the population. He said that he was convinced that a country that did not strengthen and increase its middle class had no future
He added that he wished to establish a University of Academic Excellence where the best brains in the country could go, and it would specialize in mathematics, physics and chemistry. He deplored the face that the country was in 115th place out of 115 countries when it came to mathematics and 113th in science.
Danilo Medina is also profiled in Diario Libre today.
www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/5/16/232580/Danilo-detalla-su-plan-de-100-dias (http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/5/16/232580/Danilo-detalla-su-plan-de-100-dias)
www.diariolibre.com/movil/noticias_det.php?id=336276 (http://www.diariolibre.com/movil/noticias_det.php?id=336276)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)