Henry Santos of the Ministry of Education reports that 1.3 million students are registered in all-day public schools for the 2019-2020 school year that opens 19 August 2019. This is 75% of those enrolled in public school programs, says the Ministry, and includes 365 new schools with 1,800 classrooms connected to the Cloud for Internet-based learning programs.
The Ministry announced that it will be delivering upwards of 300,000 notebooks to public school students as part of the República Digital Educación Internet-learning program. Twenty-five thousand public teachers will receive laptops as part of the same program.
Likewise, Santos said that students will benefit from free bus service, especially those that live in rural areas.
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El Caribe
5 August 2019