{"id":8403,"date":"2004-12-08T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/education-is-the-priority\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T01:43:56","slug":"education-is-the-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/12\/08\/education-is-the-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Education is the priority?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Education is a supposed priority for the Fernandez government, but, according to a report in the Listin Diario, the budget assigned to the Ministry of Education may not attest to that. Government funding of educational programs accounts for only 8% of the total budget, while years ago it was nearer the 16% that is called for by law.<\/p>\n<p> The department has been allotted RD$2 billion less than what it had requested of the Executive Branch. For instance, while it had requested RD$843 million for the construction, repair and equipping of public schools, it was only allotted RD$13.2 million.<\/p>\n<p> The Ministry of Education received a total allotment of RD$16 billion for 2005, up from RD$12 billion in 2004. The Ministry had requested a budget for 2005 of RD$19 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education is a supposed priority for the Fernandez government, but, according to a report in the Listin Diario, the budget assigned to the Ministry of Education may not attest to that. Government funding of educational programs accounts for only 8% of the total budget, while years ago it was nearer the 16% that is called &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/12\/08\/education-is-the-priority\/\" 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":[223,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403"}],"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=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}