Most primary and secondary schools open on Tuesday, 1 September. The Ministry of Education announced that around 132,000 new students have enrolled in government-run grade school and high schools throughout the country. This brings the number of students studying in public schools to 1,877,344, or almost 25% of the nation’s population. The public school system is made up of 1,400 schools. Ministry of Education says that they are working so that by December, 250 of the schools will have computer labs. This school year, 500 schools will benefit from the new educational TV system, where classes given by some of the best of the nation’s professors will be telecast to remote schools to reinforce instruction given by local professors. In addition, some 411,706 Dominicans study in the 1,514 private schools that are registered with the Ministry of Education.
