Summer Vacation Is Over, Back To School Tomorrow In Costa Rica
February 9th, 2010 | by admin |The 2010 school year is ready to begin tomorrow, three days late, due to the presidential elections on Sunday.
The halls and classrooms of the country’s schools come back to life tomorrow, as 1.082.352 students head back to classes for the 2010 school year.
This year the summer vacation as extended by two extra days to allow for the schools to be used as voting centres for the presidential elections that took place on Sunday.
The ministro de Educación, Leonardo Garnier, assures that all is ready to receive the students on their first day back to school, save for some minor problems, that are normal according to the minister.
Garnier said “that despite the little problems, the school year will begin without a hitch”.
For the 2010 school year the Ministerio de Educación Pública (MEP) will allocate ¢33 billion colones for grants that will be given to 205.570 students and another ¢36 billion colones for meals at school for 608.000 children and youths.
The official act of opening the 2010 school year will take place at the Fidel Chaves school in La Rivera de Belén., which will be officiated by Costa Rican president, Oscar arias, minister Garnier and the vice-ministras de MEP, Alejandrina Mata and Silvia Víquez, among other education and government officials and ministers.
The 2010 school year begins February 10 and ends on December 17.
