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SANTO DOMINGO. The day-long school sessions, extended to 8 hours in the public schools, carries a cost of RD$150 million for the first quarter, according to a report yesterday from the Ministry of Education (Minerd).
The pilot plan, which began during the 20110-2012 school year in 21 schools, was extended to another 75 schools in the recently begun 2012-2013 school year, making a total of 96 schools.
The logistics implied the refurbishing and equipping of the kitchens and dining rooms as well as their construction in the schools where they did not exist. This was explained by Rafaela Ramirez, the consultant of the Office of International Cooperation at Minerd.
She pointed out that in order to cover the class hours, the Ministry decided to extend to two sessions the work of the teaching personnel in each of the schools.
The feeding is offered in three ways which include the preparation of the food in the centers that have the kitchen equipment, lunched prepared by the parents and the contracting of food service from local suppliers.
According to the Minister of Education, Josefina Pimentel, with the extension of the pilot plan, some 33,306 students from 1,141 sections in all of the country will be benefitted. The 96 schools are distributed in the 18 Regional Departments, of which six are located in the Barahona region. 12 in San Juan, seven in Azua, five in San Cristobal, six in San Pedro de Macoris, eight in La Vega, four in Santiago, and four in Regional 10 in Santo Domingo.
Compensating the social deficit
"The program of the extended school day seeks to compensate for the social, cultural and economic deficit which boys and girls and adolescents bring from their homes. It allows more time to broaden and strengthen the school offering with a greater number of elements that favor the quality of learning experience and educational parity and insures an improvement with more time in school, it allows that the households can have the parents enter into the labor market," stressed Minister Josefina Pimentel.
The pilot plan, which began during the 20110-2012 school year in 21 schools, was extended to another 75 schools in the recently begun 2012-2013 school year, making a total of 96 schools.
The logistics implied the refurbishing and equipping of the kitchens and dining rooms as well as their construction in the schools where they did not exist. This was explained by Rafaela Ramirez, the consultant of the Office of International Cooperation at Minerd.
She pointed out that in order to cover the class hours, the Ministry decided to extend to two sessions the work of the teaching personnel in each of the schools.
The feeding is offered in three ways which include the preparation of the food in the centers that have the kitchen equipment, lunched prepared by the parents and the contracting of food service from local suppliers.
According to the Minister of Education, Josefina Pimentel, with the extension of the pilot plan, some 33,306 students from 1,141 sections in all of the country will be benefitted. The 96 schools are distributed in the 18 Regional Departments, of which six are located in the Barahona region. 12 in San Juan, seven in Azua, five in San Cristobal, six in San Pedro de Macoris, eight in La Vega, four in Santiago, and four in Regional 10 in Santo Domingo.
Compensating the social deficit
"The program of the extended school day seeks to compensate for the social, cultural and economic deficit which boys and girls and adolescents bring from their homes. It allows more time to broaden and strengthen the school offering with a greater number of elements that favor the quality of learning experience and educational parity and insures an improvement with more time in school, it allows that the households can have the parents enter into the labor market," stressed Minister Josefina Pimentel.
