Minister of Education announces that more than $80 million of the U-Pass will be paid in the first week of March

The Minister of Education, Maruja Gorday de Villalobos, announced this Sunday, in an Open Debate, that the PASE-U payment will be made in the first week of March, in which a disbursement of $80 million will be made, which, together with the scholarship of excellence will give parents a grant to use for what students required at the beginning of classes.

Regarding the obligation for students to wear uniforms this school year, the minister pointed out that a prior evaluation will be carried out to determine the economic conditions of each student.

“There are student welfare committees that are going to be installed in the schools on February 21, which begins the process of school organization, the committees have the obligation to see the conditions of the students. The boy who shows that he does not have obviously has the option to go in private clothes, but in the first week of March a disbursement of more than B/.80 million is being paid with the U-Pass, the father of the family has the obligation to use that subsidy and that scholarship of excellence in what the student really requires to face the school needs”, he indicated.

Regarding connectivity in schools, the minister noted that there are 60% of schools with Internet, although she accepted that there are some complaints about the connections, but indicated that they are migrating to fiber optics. “We have about 132 schools without water where there are no wells or a river nearby, and we are working with water harvesting,” he added.

Regarding how many schools there are in the regular subsystem, Gorday pointed out that there are 3,102 schools, however, he stressed that 2,481 of these were chosen as the largest schools in the country, and assured that so far 65% progress has been made in the repair of these “We have delivered more than 60 continuity projects in ranch schools,” highlighted the minister.

Finally, Gorday de Villalobos indicated that they will propose at the beginning of this year a public policy for the leveling of students to correct the loss of classes left by the pandemic and a socio-emotional package, which includes materials associated with depression and suicides to serve the community. educational.