{"id":156346,"date":"2021-04-14T06:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T10:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=156346"},"modified":"2021-04-14T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:22:30","slug":"batch-of-half-a-million-tablets-arrives-for-public-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/14\/batch-of-half-a-million-tablets-arrives-for-public-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Batch of half a million tablets arrives for public school students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Tabletas-para-estudiantes-Ministerio-de-Educacion-e1618410140926.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156381\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Education announces it has received 537,432 electronic tablets it will distribute to public school students. The batch is 67% of a recent order of the electronic devices to back remote learning programs. Only a handful of schools are authorized to reopen to in-person learning and distance learning programs are the norm for the 2020-2021 school year. The school year ends 29 July 2021. Education Minister Roberto Fulcar says the Ministry has spent RD$5.55 billion for the purchase of the tablets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry reports the breakdown of the tablets by brands is: Samsung Galaxy (309,960), Alcatel Aquaman (217,432), and Lenovo (10,040). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, the education authorities have already distributed around 1.5 million laptops for teachers in the school year that began in November 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the World Bank issued a statement urging that the government resumed in-person learning as soon as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministeriodeeducacion.gob.do\/comunicaciones\/noticias\/minerd-presenta-mas-de-medio-millon-de-dispositivos-tecnologicos-para-estudiantes\">Ministry of Education <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/destacado\/banco-mundial-insta-a-retornar-a-las-escuelas-lo-antes-posible\/\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 April 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education announces it has received 537,432 electronic tablets it will distribute to public school students. The batch is 67% of a recent order of the electronic devices to back remote learning programs. Only a handful of schools are authorized to reopen to in-person learning and distance learning programs are the norm for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/14\/batch-of-half-a-million-tablets-arrives-for-public-school-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156346"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156383,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156346\/revisions\/156383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}