Santo Domingo.-The Dominican Republic Ministry of Education (MINERD) and the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP) They are preparing to sign an agreement that will allow developing without setbacks Teaching performance evaluation (EDD), scheduled to be applied in April of this year to more than 120 thousand educators.
The discussions on the content of the agreement, headed by the Minister of Education, Ángel Hernández and the president of the ADP, Eduardo Hidalgo, were initiated last Friday and will continue tomorrow Monday, at 2:00 in the afternoon, at the headquarters of the headquarters Teacher Union.
The agreement will be signed at the Ministry headquarters, on a date not yet established.
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A source revealed that the discussions revolve around the 70 minimum points scale to approve the performance evaluation and the execution of a wide teacher training program for teachers who fail to overcome that stop.
There were mediators
“We are at the door of signing that agreement that will be transcendental for the good performance of the public education system,” said the informant.
He said that the approach between the parties in conflict was achieved thanks to the intervention of the former presidents of the ADP.
He explained that the parties are interested in giving the best exit to that impasse and that a sample of this was the presence of Minister Hernández in the ADP premises, last Friday.
“The document that will sign the parties is not completed yet, so I cannot talk about specific details of its content. That is why the discussions continue on Monday, ”said the source.
The conflict
The conflict began last week when the teacher’s guild threatened to start a national struggle plan to demand that The Ministry will drop the score to approve the EDD to 60% That the educational authorities will apply to teachers, pedagogical coordinators, center directors, school counselors, school psychologists, dynamizers, library teachers, teaching secretaries of educational centers, teaching coordinators, teaching technicians and national, regional and district directors.
On that occasion, Minister Hernández ratified that he will apply incentives For performance only to teachers who pass the evaluation with 70 points or more, “which is the minimum level with which a teacher enters the educational system.”
The conflict generated concern.
