The Ministry alerted that at least 60 centers of such kind have been created in the last few years, which supposedly correspond to the national high schools category, but do not have appropriate buildings or planning for administrative and teaching staff.

Besides, the entity criticized that the worst turns out to be that some of those “disorderly high schools” have been operating on public schools’ places, with a plethora of administrative and teaching staff, which exceed the number of students in the school in question.

The Ministry added that, in the past academic year, at least 15 of those institutions attempted to present candidates to final exams.

The MENFP reminded that the list of high schools created by decision of the central government is available on the Ministry’s website asking the directors of schools that are not in the numbering to inform the departmental directorates of Education in order to take the appropriate administrative measures.

It further indicated that those schools may be regularized if they comply with the National School Accreditation Policy, while the personnel appointed and assigned to the academic entities that did not achieve certification will be reassigned to other public institutions.

The Ministry will also guarantee the participation of its students in this year’s official examinations in order to protect the rights and interests of the student body.

Over 90 % of Haiti’s schools are private, and the authorities had warned several times that not all of them are regularized, despite the fact that parents can pay large sums for their children’s education.

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