President Danilo Medina inaugurated 10 new schools in the southwestern province of Azua yesterday, Tuesday 10 June, providing a total of 5,075 students with 145 new classrooms. The government says it has spent RD$542 million on the new facilities.
Medina inaugurated the first school in Padre Las Casas and then moved on to La Bombita to open Altagracia de la Cruz Feliz school. During the visit to Padre Las Casas, President Medina promised the reconstruction of the Padre Las Casas-Bohechio road.
The other schools are Silvestre Antonio Guzman Fernandez in the Quisqueya housing development, Estebania in the municipality of the same name, Jose Nunez de Caceres in Las Charcas, Hatillo, Juan Pablo II in the municipal district of Las Yayas, Alejandro Cabral and Santiago Luciano in Guayabal, Los Naranjos, and the Profesora Martina Feliz high school in Dona Emma and Santa Teresa de Jesus high school in Sabana Yegua.
All of the schools have IT laboratories, libraries, kitchens, dining rooms, recreation and administrative areas.
The Minister of Education, Carlos Amarante Baret made the main speech, followed by the Minister of Public Works, Gonzalo Castillo.
Provincial governor Luis Vargas also spoke, as did Altagracia de la Cruz Feliz School principal Juan Bautista Diaz and student Crisleidy Ciprian.
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