Santo Domingo.- The Collective for Educational Quality classified as counterproductive the reduction of the allocation for the training of public school teachers, because aggravates the existing problem within the framework of the controversy over the 2026 educational budget.
“The solution is not to cut resources; it is to guarantee that every peso invested in teacher training is more effective, measurable and responsible to society,” says Prof. Juan Valdez, spokesperson for the group.
According to the union, the quality of training that Dominican teachers receive is deficientwhere most programs do not guarantee teaching and learning in classrooms.
The entity maintains that the Dominican educational structure has a discrepancy between what is invested and the results observable in the classrooms, due to flaws in training programs and the lack of rigorous evaluation of their impact.
Likewise, they warn that the transformation of educational fabric It is based on the evaluation of spending through strategic axes that allow the appointment and support of officials with technical capacity in the main educational institutions of the country, as well as la rigorous evaluation that identifies the training needs of teachers.
“Teachers must become active agents of educational quality: they must know how to critically evaluate the training offer, rthrow out programs without proven impact and demand improvements. They have my support for that work,” emphasizes the group’s spokesperson.
The members of the group emphasize that the cut in teaching assignments without a deep review prior deteriorates educational quality and worsens the learning conditions of uniformed personnel in classrooms.
“The fever is not in the sheet” to draw attention to the need for structural and well-founded solutions,” the union concluded.
