SECOND ELEMENTARY ED

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The Second Elementary Education Project will constitute a second phase of further improving equity, efficiency, and quality in elementary education through support to the 1990-92 subsector investment program and action plan of the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports (DECS). The project's objective is to increase equity, efficiency, and quality in elementary education through assistance to the DECS investment program. This will be pursued through short and longer term measures which aim to : a) meet the subsector's requirements for essential physical resources; b) improve the professional competence of teachers and school administrators; c) expand the population with basic knowledge and skills, with efforts targeted to at-risk children and illiterate youth and adults; and d) further develop DECS instituional capacities in planning and management of the elementary education subsector. In support of these objectives, the project will comprise the following : 1) increasing the provision of educational infrastructure through rehabilitation of classrooms, printing and distribution of textbooks, and acquisition of small equipment and instructional aids; 2) improving teacher and administrator performance through in-service training of teachers, and administrators; 3) expanding basic education through introduction of 3 dropout prevention measures on a pilot basis, and expansion of the DECS literacy training program; and 4) strengthening planning and management.