The following excerpt is from a Janaury 7, 2010 article published by Inside Costa Rica. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
GUATEMALA – The Guatemalan teachers” guild announced on Wednesday that it would declare itself in permanent assembly to analyze measures that exert pressure Congress to increase the sector’s budget this year.
Teachers went to public schools on Monday to finish the preparations for the new school year, the beginning of which was scheduled for January 29.
They have been threatening since December to perform a strike if the legislature refuses to increase the budget, after failing to adopt the regulation proposed by the government and the State being forced to work with the same amount that in 2009.
This stance was supported by incapacity of the parliamentarians to approve, before their year-end break, a government fiscal reform initiative.
With this reform, they expect to obtain money from increasing some taxes to help finance several essential public sectors in the country, as education and health, both free, and security.
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