Educational Agenda, Priorities and Budget

To achieve a quality and relevant educational system that reaches everyone, that is an instrument of personal and collective development, and that results in a training in values ​​of all citizens so that we all live in a better country and with quality of life, is much what we have to achieve and move forward.

There is an agenda drawn up several years ago that has been discussed and agreed, and that we have not met or that we have half fulfilled. Among other aspects that agenda is formed by:

• The country's commitment to the millennium goals proposed by the United Nations. We have, among others, pending to fulfill the achievement of universal primary education.
• The two decennial plans for Basic Education and for Higher Education approved in 2008. If we review them we have delays in compliance.
• The 2009 proposals for education, one of the themes of the Summit for National Unity to confront the World Crisis. In the follow-up of the same that appears on the website of the Summit, several proposals related to education are identified that are pending compliance (Report of accountability 2009 Summit)
• The content of the "Social Pact for the Quality of Education", which prioritizes even more the necessary actions and that has been worked since the end of 2009. It is pending signing, execution and monitoring.
• The National Strategy for Development in discussion with proposed lines of action to make education a true instrument of development.

To carry out all those agreed, agreed and prioritized actions, the political will backed by the necessary resources is required. It is a matter of resource allocation, execution and monitoring.

It is possible that an 4% of GDP is not enough. We believe that the State should give a signal that education is a national priority, so that all of us who have to commit to achieve the agenda discussed, agreed, agreed and prioritized assume our responsibilities with greater enthusiasm in the execution and monitoring.

Dominican society hopes that the discourse in which the importance of education is exalted will be maintained, in which the need to innovate and constantly improve is emphasized; It also expects greater recognition of this priority in the allocation of resources. If we succeed, we will see that in a few years we will have advanced.