Teaching coverage above 97 percent and the implementation of strategies and working styles more inclusive from the methodological order are among the strengths with which the education sector in Las Tunas starts the New Year.

Las Tunas, Cuba - With an approved teaching staff of more than 10 thousand jobs, the province requires 277 teachers, a figure that is efficiently covered with fifth-year students in Pedagogy, production specialists, contracts and other modalities, according to the Directorate of Education in the territory.

Las Tunas has one of the highest coverage in the country, after reincorporating about 1,200 education professionals, both those who were not working and those who are retired, mainly due to the salary increase that the sector received in mid-2019.

This response allowed that more than 2,900 primary school students, belonging to 186 groups in 37 schools, to benefit from the strategy of placing two teachers per classroom.

This service guarantees an effective diagnosis of student enrollment, higher quality in the teaching-learning process and better implementation of the work methods of the Third Education Improvement Program.

In addition, work is underway to place one Spanish, Mathematics and Cuban History teacher in each twelfth-grade classroom, a completion that already covers four of the territory's eight municipalities and taxes more than 90 percent of the graduates of this level of education.

In the 2019-2020 school year, Las Tunas has an enrollment of more than 82,200 students, higher than the previous calendar, mainly in Preschool, Primary, Technical, Pedagogical and Adult Education.

Such figures force the sector to project higher goals in order to maintain the efficiency indicators and the Outstanding Condition at a national level, a category that the province holds for the sixth consecutive year.