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Cuban president welcomes start of the school year

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Havana, Sep 4 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel welcomed the start of the 2023-2024 school year, the first to take place during 46 weeks, after the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The happy day has arrived. Back to the classrooms, to classes, to friends, to the certainty that all efforts and sacrifices worth to see the future filled with light,” the president wrote in his account on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

The head of State also sent congratulations to the Caribbean nation because; “no matter what it takes, all our schools are still open”.

According to authorities of the Ministry of Education, the new school period must be characterized by a permanent evaluation of the priorities established to make it sustainable throughout the year.

Regarding the guarantee of literature and teaching material for the new school year, the head of the sector, Naima Trujillo informed that the school year has started with an adjusted standard of notebooks because it has not been possible to produce all the titles of books used so far in the educational system.

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