Real talk: I have been a teacher in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere. In the Dominican Republic, my experience is there is a systematic denial of educational standards and integrity. In other words, in public escuelas as well as expensive bilingual colegios, standards are adjusted to suit the needs of school owners and the government. Among those with the influence to do it, there is little interest in improving the level of public and private education because to do so would lead to social and economic reforms of the sort that would threaten the feudal system that benefits a very small segment of Dominican society.
Main problem is the teachers are bad. Several have suggested that using technology could bypass the bad teachers. Dominicans are quick to adopt technology. Would be less costly and faster than trying to retrain the teachers. But the ADP most probably will be against that. Will have to see what happens. The extra money has gone into building new schools.