The Alexander Von Humboldt District Educational Institution, positioned as the best public school in the country, will have a new face after an intervention in its infrastructure, which has already been officially announced by Mayor Jaime Pumarejo.
The 750 students who are part of the single day will be the first to benefit from the investment, close to 5 billion pesos: more than 3,000 issued by the District and the rest from the National Government.
The educational center has 52 years running and always standing out at the national level for its academic results.
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The intervention that implies expansion will be carried out through the Educational Infrastructure Financing Fund (FFIE) with the district administration.
“We are going to improve the environment of the entrance, the access, the dining room, the kitchen, two multi-purpose classrooms. In addition, we have just committed to improving the entire landscape environment of the school and, in addition, to improving the computer room that the students themselves asked us for,” said the president.
Pumarejo added that both the IED Alexander Von Humboldt and other campuses are going to undergo a transformation starting this year.
We will give 1,000 scholarships for teachers over the next 2 years and more than 8,000 technical-professional scholarships for our students
“We will give 1,000 scholarships for teachers over the next 2 years and more than 8,000 scholarships for professional technicians for our students when they graduate from high school. We are doing all this and more to ensure that our children have a promising future in Barranquilla,” she said.
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The institution leads the list of top 10 public schools in Barranquilla, located in the top 100 nationwide.
The results of the Colombian Institute for the Evaluation of Education (ICFES), indicate that the educational institutions of Barranquilla with lower performance (category C and D) improved their global index during the pandemic.
Another achievement that highlights the Education secretary is that of the decrease in the number of students with low performance in reading, natural sciences and English.
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