The director of School Maintenance for the Ministry of Education (MINERD) has announced that they are extending tenders for the repairs needed on some 500 public schools in the Dominican Republic. The repairs are planned for the Christmas vacations. Cedeño said that hundreds of schools will benefit from the repairs, garden work and new paint.
Adolfo Cedeño, the engineer in charge of all of this work, also told reporters that a tender for some RD$1.5 billion will choose contractors for preparing “hundreds” of schools for the extended school hours programs. The schools will get a kitchen and cafeteria area, new annexes for more classes, bathrooms and sports facilities. The Minerd says that it has covered 75% of the school population with the new Extended School Day program.
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El Dia
14 October 2019