Minister of Education Andres Navarro and Monsignor Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez, the president of the Dominican Episcopal Conference and bishop of the La Altagracia Diocese, have signed 35 cooperation agreements for the co-management of 127 Catholic schools in the Dominican Republic. In a press release, both parties stressed that the agreements create a strategic alliance to improve the quality of education in both knowledge and values.
The agreement will allow for the director of the school and the curriculum supervisor to be named by the Catholic Church. However, the teachers in the Catholic schools under the agreement must fulfill the professional requirements established by the Ministry of Education before they can be hired.
It is agreed that the Catholic schools will continue to allot a monthly subsidy to other church entities.
Already several of these schools are operating under Ministry of Education public school guidelines.
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Listin Diario
27 June 2017
