The preliminary findings of a study by university professor Boanerges Dominguez suggest that 50% of children between the ages of three and five are not attending public or private pre-schools.
Many do not have a birth certificate, others do not go to school because their parents are too poor, while some parents are concerned about sending the children to school or the pre-schools are too far from home.
The study, which was commissioned by the Dominican Institute for Evaluation and Research on Educational Quality (IDEICE) found that 83% of the children who do not go to pre-school do not have birth certificates.
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