Dominican Republic. The state of public teacher policies: on the brink of change

This document is part of a series of follow-up reports on teacher policies by the Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL). These reports seek to foster informed debates on public teacher policies through national studies that systematically illustrate the status and scope of these policies in each country's schools.

The report, prepared by EDUCA and the Inter-American Dialogue, analyses several areas of teacher policies in the Dominican Republic, such as strategies for recruiting and retaining talented teachers and processes that incentivize good teaching. It was developed following the signing of a Pacto Nacional para la Reforma Educativa [National Pact for Education Reform], which led to a set of agreements being incorporated into the public agenda to improve the quality of teaching staff. These included raising the entry requirements for teaching careers, developing training programmes, providing mentoring for practising teachers, and paying teachers based on their qualifications and performance, as measured by an independent technical evaluation.