The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), stated yesterday that any modification or elimination in Regulation 09-15, which regulates Teacher Training and Educational Quality in the Dominican Republic, constitutes a danger to education.
Alejandrina Germán, a member of the PLD’s Technical Board of Education, maintained that “until now, the first results of the application of the Regulations are sponsored in an attempt to raise the quality of Dominican education.”
“An important piece of evidence in this direction is that, in the last public contests held to enter the teaching career, 95% of the graduates of this program have obtained passing grades,” said Germán.
The political leader said that it is inappropriate and extemporaneous to try to modify Regulation 09-15 without having elapsed the prudent time to make an exhaustive evaluation of its impact on the quality of teacher training.
“It requires rigorous research to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the program to introduce the pertinent adjustments that guarantee teacher training of ever higher quality,” he added.
Regarding the President’s entrustment to the Minister of Education, Ángel Hernández, to make the necessary efforts to achieve consensus on the regulatory framework, Alejandrina Germán said that what “the minister must do is try to exhaust the evaluation processes of the impact and the advances that we have had in that regulation”.
Melanio Paredes, on behalf of the Technical Education Board, welcomed Luis Abinader’s decision, hoping that “the issue can always be discussed in a transparent manner for the benefit of educational quality.”
