Costa Rica Education

  Lack of Teachers and Desks Represents All Too Familiar Start to the School Year. After a two month break from school during the Costa Rican summer, school children returned to class today, causing increased traffic in many urban centers in the country. To start the day, Costa Rican President Arias and the Minister of Education symbolically opened the school year at the Liceo Experimental Bilingue de Rio de Jimenez in Guacimo at a special ceremony. This year nearly 5,000 students less were registered to return to classes than during the same time last year. The number of students returning

  President Arias Fears Children Will Be Pressured to Ditch School for Work. While the United States has dug itself deeper into its trillion dollar deficit in this time of economic crisis, the Costa Rica government is stripping away funding and hoarding its money to avoid the effects, while turning its back on needy citizens. The government’s first call to temporarily cut work hours and salaries to allow companies to employ more people for shorter periods at a lower wage has angered unions and labor rights groups, who say the government is taking advantage of the crisis to deny workers

If you are thinking of relocating to one of the Costa Rica homes for sale and you have school-age kids, one of your main concerns is probably their education. You most likely would want to know what the educational system is and what schools would be available for your child. According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica has a literacy rate of 94.9 percent. The reason there is such a high rate of literacy is the incorporation of compulsory education for Costa Rican citizens into the Costa Rican constitution. Because education is so highly valued in Costa Rica, education