Education Minister Carlos Amarante Baret announced that 860,000 students in 1,689 public schools will attend school for the full-day sessions when the new school year starts on Monday, 18 August 2014. He said this represents “a new paradigm for Dominican education.”
Amarante Baret said the goal for the 2015-2016 school year is to have 1.7 million of the 1.9 million public school students nationwide attending classes in the extended school day programs that begin at 8am and end at 4pm.
The Minister said that more than 400 new public school buildings have already been integrated into the program since this February. He said more schools will be ready to host the extended day classes before the school year starts.
Finally, Amarante Baret announced that the curriculum and associated school programs would be completely updated and revised in time for the 2015-2016 school year.