The governments of Central America and the Dominican Republic have signed an eight-year agreement aimed at motivating education as a human right, free of discrimination and with equal opportunities.
The proposal is called “Central American Education Policy” and was agreed at the 32nd meeting of the Council of Education Ministers and the Council of Ministers and Cultural Directors of the Education and Culture Committee of Central America (CECC-Sica), held over three days in Santo Domingo and finishing on Saturday, 8 June.
According to the document, the aim is to ensure that education focuses on the economy, social cohesion and environmental awareness, but with an integrated focus on respect for human rights, multiculturalism and sexual equality.
The initiative is the work of the General Secretary of CECC-Sica, Maria Eugenia Paniagua from El Salvador, who, in the future, also wants to strengthen and extend early education for children under the age of 6, coordinating national child development programs with other sectors.
In addition she wants universal access to education with all students having at least nine years of general primary education.
La CECC-Sica is made up of the seven Central American countries as agreed by the Tegucigalpa Protocol: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, and the Dominican Republic as an Associated State.
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