The President Luis Abinader He responded on Monday to the criticism of former president Danilo Medina, who accused his Government of having failed In the implementation of the Extended school day and in the construction of schoolswhat – according to Medina – has left thousands of children without quota to receive teaching.
During his speech at The weekly with the pressAbinader described as “a real shame” the state in which he received hundreds of school schoolsmany of them paralyzed by legal, technical problems or lack of structural design.
“The country knows what happened with those classrooms. Many had to redesign them because they didn’t even have adequate structural criteria,” he said.
The president recalled that his Governmentjust a year and a half of assuming, he had to promote special legislation – which he called “the legal knot” – to reactivate dozens of paralyzed works, with the support even of party legislators of Dominican liberation (PLD).
Faced with criticism, Abinader urged the ex -president to consult official dataunderlining that your management has managed to incorporate more than 206 thousand students to the extended school day, built around 800 new educational centers and added thousands of classrooms to the system.
