The Ministry of Education and the Associations of Private Schools agreed this Monday that the next teaching contests Whatever the Minerd does, the winners will enter the public sector in the following school year as a way to prevent teachers have to leave schools in the middle of the school year to take up their new position in the public sector as has been happening.
The agreement was reached after a meeting between the Minister of EducationRoberto Fulcar, and representatives of the private schoolswho had asked the official for a meeting to discuss the issue.
“During the meeting, it was agreed to seek a regulation by which it is guaranteed that the hiring processes of the applicants for the next teaching competitions called by the Minerd, are effective for the school year following the one in which the competition is being held, avoiding hiring of teachers practicing private sector, thus satisfying a historic request from the private educational sector”, says a press release from the Minerd.
While to “solve” any situation that could have arisen with the teachers who work in private schools and who gained places in public educational centers “They agreed to establish commissions at the local level to put the directors of the private educational centers in contact with the directors of the public centers to which the teachers who won positions will be assigned, with the mediation of the directors of the Educational Districts. The purpose of these commissions is to guarantee an organized transition of teachers who won positions in the public sector”.
At the beginning of last month, private educational institutions complained about the negative impact caused by the abrupt departure of teachers from schools who, in full performance of their duties and three months before the end of the school year, were being called to assume immediate contractual obligations in public educational centers, after winning teaching contests.
The people that is here
The meeting was headed, in addition to Minister Fulcar, by the Vice Minister of Supervision, Evaluation and Quality Control, Rafael Bello; the Vice Minister of Technical and Pedagogical Services, Ligia Pérez; the director of Accreditation of Educational Centers, Susana Michel; for the private educational sector, the president of the Dominican Union of Private Educational Institutions (UDIEP), Mercedes Coronado; the president of the Association of Private Educational Institutions (AINEP), Jorge Luis Peláez; the president of the National Association of Evangelical Educational Centers (ANACE), Sebastiana Javier; by the National Union of Adventist Educational Centers (UNACA), Mildred Castillo, and the rector of Colegio Loyola, Fr. Jorge William Hernández (SJ).