President Luis Abinader and the Minister of Education, Ángel Hernández, started the 2022-2023 school year today, the president also inaugurated 11 educational establishments with 241 classrooms and delivered the 2 millionth tablet.
For the beginning of the school year, 2 million 627 thousand 833 students from the public, private and semi-official sectors are summoned, who will be welcomed in 10,797 educational centers that operate in 9,247 schools.
The official start of the school year took place at the Cosme Manuel Jiménez high school, located in the La Javilla sector of the La Victoria municipality, in Santo Domingo Norte, a campus with 26 classrooms, which will benefit 780 students and was the result of an investment of RD$153,440,112.63.
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This campus is part of the 11 educational centers that President Abinader inaugurated today simultaneously, leaving 241 new classrooms in operation.
The other centers inaugurated are the Professor Miguel Ángel Pérez Basic School, in Sabana Lost, with 27 classrooms; the José F. Peña Gómez polytechnic and his workshops, in Bonao, with 35 classrooms; as well as the Martín Polanco Padilla Primary School, in Samaná, with 25 classrooms.
Also, the Ana María Alcántara High School and the Gastón Fernando Deligne High School, in Azua, with 28 classrooms; the Professor Elsa Mojica high school, with 26 classrooms, in West Santo Domingo; and the Chaparral Basic School, in Villa Mella, with 26; the La Villa Hermosa Basic School, in La Romana, with 24 classrooms; and the Liceo Ledia María Agramonte, in Peravia, with 12 classrooms.
Six of the campuses were completed by the Ministry of Education through maintenance sessions and another five through the National Program for School Buildings (PNEE).
Another 17 classrooms in Ciudad Juan Bosch and 12 more in the Liceo Ercilia Pepín, in Manoguayabo. Abinader also announced that another 105 classrooms will be delivered through the PNEE.
Device for school year
Tablet number two million was handed out at the event, which was received by the student Rachel Abigail Cornielle Padilla, from the seventh year of the first level of secondary school, who on behalf of the student community expressed her gratitude to President Abinader’s management.
The stage was used to share with society the educational model “Let’s learn together”, an initiative that promotes the MINERD in order to improve the different levels of the educational community and its actors.
This project integrates all sectors of Dominican society, so that they are the promoters of a reformed educational system that works with the highest standards.
“Let’s learn together” focuses on promoting a greater and better investment of the Budget of the Ministry of Education in the classrooms and in the pedagogical processes inherent to learning; in highlighting the responsibility of regional and district directors in the different levels of learning of young people in their respective educational centers.
Also, in promoting teamwork in the different Regions, Districts, centers, departments, directions and units of the MINERD; motivate families, teachers and civil society to join comprehensive education to deal with the different remnants of the system; and to guide employees on how to improve their functions based on commitment, ethics and transparency.
