Education Minister Jaime Perczyk launched a program on Thursday that provides for the delivery of 1,800 million pesos for 18,000 cooperatives throughout the country in the framework of actions to to guarantee full presence with a view to the start of classes on March 2 next.
“On March 2nd we began to walk a school year of Recovery Y repair for Argentina”, said the minister during the presentation of the Cooperate program in the Buenos Aires city of Lomas de Zamora, informed the educational portfolio.
“The school is the place where we have to be the protagonists of the Argentina that we want,” Perczyk remarked and stressed that “we have to strengthen the learning of Language and Mathematics and also involve families and cooperators”.
Perczyk also highlighted that will distribute more than eight million books for students of primary school within the framework of the Books to Learn program.
“We are here so that on March 2 we can learn and play again,” Perczyk said, adding that “We go to school with full attendance, careful, enhanced and with ventilated classrooms and masks in closed spaces”.
The program of Strengthening of School Cooperators in the Argentine Republic (Cooperate) promotes the participation of families in educational communities, the institutionalization of school cooperatives and the strengthening of public schools.
What’s more, seeks to create the conditions to accompany the students, strengthen schooling, organize the educational community and improve equipment and infrastructure of Argentine public schools.
Also participating in the presentation were the Chief of Staff of the Province of Buenos Aires, Martín Insaurralde, and the General Director of the General Director of Culture and Education in Buenos Aires, Alberto Sileoni.
Insaurralde affirmed that “we have spent many years in Lomas de Zamora being at the forefront together with the community of teachers, parents and students of a battle for cultural and educational equality”.
The General Director of Culture and Education, @AlbertoSileoniparticipated, along with the minister @jaimeperczyk and the Buenos Aires chief of staff @minsaurraldefrom the presentation of #CooperateProgram in #Lomas de zamora. pic.twitter.com/zTuAx5i6fQ
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“That is why we celebrate this program, which is in line with what we think in the local team, what our president Alberto Fernández and our governor Axel Kicillof think about the value of the public education and how the state should invest to strengthen it”, he remarked.
Meanwhile, Sileoni stressed that “society must be built on organized communitiestrying to generate ties, build a us”.
“If there is a representation of that us in society, it is the school and within the school, that we are the cooperator”, he stressed.
