{"id":236408,"date":"2025-05-26T07:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=236408"},"modified":"2025-05-26T09:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:35:56","slug":"the-present-public-education-model-is-a-bottomless-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/05\/26\/the-present-public-education-model-is-a-bottomless-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"The present public education model is a bottomless barrel with little to show for"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cooperativo-Maestros-Diario-Libre-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236467\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cooperativo-Maestros-Diario-Libre-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cooperativo-Maestros-Diario-Libre-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cooperativo-Maestros-Diario-Libre-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cooperativo-Maestros-Diario-Libre-1536x862.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cooperativo-Maestros-Diario-Libre.png 1782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The reality of the pressures exerted by the highly politicized teacher and public school employees unions versus quality of education is now making news. Studies confirm that the billions of taxpayer money spent on wage increases for the teachers have not translated into more learned graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Minister of Education Luis Miguel de Camps has the challenge of making a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/educacion\/2025\/05\/25\/el-salario-de-maestros-sube-y-la-calidad-educativa-baja\/3126656\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/opinion\/editorial\/2025\/05\/25\/la-educacion-debe-de-cambiar\/3126632\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/05\/19\/after-14-years-of-massive-budgets-dominican-education-is-still-woefully-behind\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 May 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reality of the pressures exerted by the highly politicized teacher and public school employees unions versus quality of education is now making news. Studies confirm that the billions of taxpayer money spent on wage increases for the teachers have not translated into more learned graduates. New Minister of Education Luis Miguel de Camps has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/05\/26\/the-present-public-education-model-is-a-bottomless-barrel\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408"}],"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=236408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236468,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408\/revisions\/236468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}