DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Abinader administration has issued Decree 309-26, a sweeping mandate aimed at restructuring the Dominican Republic’s educational framework through a “National Consultation for the Future of Dominican Education.” While the government frames the move as a necessary evolution to ensure quality and institutional alignment, the influential Dominican Public School Teachers Union (ADP) has interpreted the decree as a strategic pivot toward favoring the private sector.

The controversy centers on the decree’s linguistic shift. Unlike previous mandates that maintained a rigid distinction between the public and private sectors, Article 4 of Decree 309-26 outlines a “Comprehensive Educational System” without specifying such divisions. This ambiguity has fueled ADP’s claims that the administration is laying the groundwork to redirect state focus—and potentially resources—toward private...