The Ministry of Education delivered checks for RD$39.2 million to 30 engineers selected as contractors for the remodeling of an equal number of schools in different parts of the country. These funds include advance payments for the initial work and others are installments for construction work already in progress. The Ministry has designed a national plan for the construction and rehabilitation of school infrastructure that will cover 7,580 classrooms over the next 18 months. Minister Alejandrina German informed that her department is building 184 new schools (3,558 classrooms) and repairing 3,722 classrooms in 470 schools across the country. She explained that the total budget for this is RD$2.3 billion which will be provided by government and international cooperation funding.