President Danilo Medina was at the new extended day public school, Centro Educativo Padre Eulalio Arias in Cristo Rey low income barrio of Santo Domingo this morning for a ceremony marking the start of the new school year. Some 2,705,297 students are back in school today, Monday 18 August 2014. The government says 6, 207 new classrooms of 10,000 under construction have been added at 422 public schools nationwide. This means 814,474 students in 1,722 schools nationwide will be at school until 4pm, up from around 200,000 during the last school year.
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