DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Over the weekend, the Ministry of Education announced an indefinite postponing of the contest to choose public school teachers for the 2021-2022 school year. The school year officially begins 20 September 2021 for in-person learning in public schools nationwide. As reported 71,514 teachers registered for the assessments to choose the 19,000 public school teachers that would be assigned to 18 regional school districts nationwide.

As reported, there were major technological problems with the computerized testing platform. Likewise, in many regional school districts, most of the teachers would have failed the written test.

The Ministry of Education notified the participants to check their emails where they would be notified when they should return to continue the assessment process. The assessment is a first phase for selecting teachers for pre-school, elementary...