Back to school

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Today is the first day of the new school year and an expected 2,463,130 million students will be back in the classrooms. This is a total of 68,756 students less than the 2006-07 school year. President Leonel Fernandez is heading an official opening ceremony at 8am today. In preparation for the beginning of the school year, the Education Ministry says that it has spent RD$219 million on rehabilitating state school classrooms.

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