To comply with the law that calls for the government to spend 4% of GDP on education, the Ministry of Education disbursed RD$21 billion in December, as reported in Diario Libre. The newspaper said that as of 10 December, the government had allocated RD$74.2 billion to the Ministry, but by 31 December, the Ministry reported expenditures for RD$95.4 billion, or 95.79% of the budgeted amount.
http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias/2014/01/27/i455111_ministerio-educacin-ejecut-rd21-000-millones-das.html