{"id":5121,"date":"2012-06-12T14:34:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T19:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2012-06-13T07:44:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:44:06","slug":"70-million-for-panamanian-school-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/70-million-for-panamanian-school-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"$70 million for Panamanian School Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/panama-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5122\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/panama-school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/panama-school.jpg 800w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/panama-school-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The school system in Panama is ranked as the one of the lowest in the Americas and ranks near countries like Nigeria world wide.\u00a0 While everyone says things are improving, that is from a base where school teachers are high school graduates that are taught how to teach and few of them have much education themselves.\u00a0 It has become a self perpetuating morass and Panama needs to get serious if they think that they are going to progress in the world.\u00a0 Our economic ranking in the world suffers because of guess what, education!\u00a0 While this is certainly a good first step, throwing money at infrastructure is like the government loaning cheap money to farmers rather than investing it in bringing in real talent from around the word to help with the systems at the same time they build new schools.<\/p>\n<p>The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a loan of $70 million  to provide innovative infrastructure to 47 communities in Panama, benefiting more than 38,000 students. The goal is to expand educational opportunities and encourage students in marginal areas and indigenous students to complete their basic education.<\/p>\n<p>In Panama, more than a third of young people between 13 and 17 are  outside the education system at secondary level. Education levels are  particularly low in the areas targeted by the program. For example, in  the indigenous regions of Ng\u00e4be Yala Guna-Bugle and only 43 percent of  young people are attending high school.<\/p>\n<p>These resources will fund the expansion and equippment of 20 primary  schools so as to include grades 7th to 9th, and the construction of two  model schools with a new approach to teaching and educational management  and innovative educational spaces. This is expected to generate 10,000  newly enrolled students covering levels from preschool through high  school.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a nice article that I read while surfing the net for a picture.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaluyala.com\/community\/our-global-community\/panama%E2%80%99s-education-system-slow-but-positive-progression\/\" target=\"_blank\">Panama\u2019s Education System: Slowly Changing<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school system in Panama is ranked as the one of the lowest in the Americas and ranks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles-panama-perpsective"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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