A bit more background on the Argentina education protest
i posted on the various strikes staged in argentina last week - teachers, bank clerks, fishermen, car workers, animal health service workers, theater employees, university lecturers, and high school students... here's a little bit more background on the education portion of the strikes, namely the teachers and the high school students (a couple of whom i happen to know)...
In a strike called by the Confederation of Education Sector Workers of Argentina (CTERA), thousands of public school teachers walked out on their jobs around the country and gathered in the capital, where they marched on Congress, calling for government spending on education to be raised from four to six percent of gross domestic product (GDP) within the next three years.
The march coincided with the culmination of protests staged by secondary school students in the capital. On Thursday, students held sit-ins in schools around the city to denounce the dire physical and hygienic conditions they are forced to endure, which include cracked and crumbling walls and ceilings, infestations of rodents, and water and gas shortages.
what's particularly complicating about the situation is that a law adopted in 1993 transferred all jurisdiction for public schools from the federal government to the provincial governments, the consequence of which has been that children are taught a different curriculum in every province, teachers' salaries have wide disparities, and physical facilities have seriously deteriorated... all of this has been greatly aggravated, of course, by the late 2001 financial and economic meltdown which plunged over half of Argentina's 37 million inhabitants below the poverty line... although the last two years have brought a certain degree of economic recovery, there's a long way to go... Submit To Propeller
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In a strike called by the Confederation of Education Sector Workers of Argentina (CTERA), thousands of public school teachers walked out on their jobs around the country and gathered in the capital, where they marched on Congress, calling for government spending on education to be raised from four to six percent of gross domestic product (GDP) within the next three years.
The march coincided with the culmination of protests staged by secondary school students in the capital. On Thursday, students held sit-ins in schools around the city to denounce the dire physical and hygienic conditions they are forced to endure, which include cracked and crumbling walls and ceilings, infestations of rodents, and water and gas shortages.
what's particularly complicating about the situation is that a law adopted in 1993 transferred all jurisdiction for public schools from the federal government to the provincial governments, the consequence of which has been that children are taught a different curriculum in every province, teachers' salaries have wide disparities, and physical facilities have seriously deteriorated... all of this has been greatly aggravated, of course, by the late 2001 financial and economic meltdown which plunged over half of Argentina's 37 million inhabitants below the poverty line... although the last two years have brought a certain degree of economic recovery, there's a long way to go... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
5/23/2005
