Education Minister Andres Navarro has called on parents across the country to send their children back to school, as classes officially reopened on Monday, 11 September 2017, following the passing of Hurricane Irma. He said all schools had reopened, including those that needed repairs and those that were used as shelters.
Navarro had toured some of the affected schools in Nagua and Duarte province. At these he instructed the National Institute of Student Welfare to provide uniforms, shoes and school materials to those students who had lost their belongings in the flooding.
Navarro said that he had 43 brigades working on the schools that were affected in order that they could reopen on Monday, and that the conditions, although only basic in some schools, were still adequate for classroom instruction.
El Nacional reported that the call back to school was successful with a massive turnout at public and private schools nationwide.
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El Nacional
El Nacional
12 September 2017
