The Ministry of Education accepted to postpone the contest to choose public teachers for the 2021-2022 school year. The Ministry acted on recommendation of Xiomara Guante, president of the Dominican Association of Public School Teachers (ADP).
As reported in Diario Libre, the public school teacher union president asked Education Minister Roberto Fulcar to suspend the competition to choose public school teachers for the 2021-2022 school year.
The request is made after it was known that most of those who sat for the examinations failed the written test that is a first part of the assessment.
Guante had asked that the tests should be postponed for one or two days to give time for the National Commission to meet and analyze what has happened.
“So far, the ADP is not in a position to say what has happened because we have not gathered enough information, Guante said.
She said that what is known is that there were technological problems at the start and that reports are that a majority of those taking the test failed.
The Teacher Competitive Examination began this Wednesday with the evaluations of the applicants for the primary level in the 18 regional and 122 educational districts with a massive participation.
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Diario Libre
10 September 2021