Education Minister Andrés Navarro announced that the 2017-18 schoolyear will start with 200 new schools. He said there are 1,150,000 students in the extended classroom public school system. Another 600,000 still need to be incorporated into full day classes program.
The 200 new school rooms will be ready for the opening of classes, scheduled in August 2017. Navarro said the goal is that by 2018 1,200,000 students be in the extended school system where students go to school from 8 to 4pm.
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Listin Diario
4 July 2017
