The Ministry of Education (Minerd) and the Dominican Association of Professors (ADP) again agreed to review the cases of teachers whose pay has been blocked as the result of recent audits carried out in the Ministry. Nonetheless, the president of the ADP, Eduardo Hidalgo, warned that demonstrations that have been carried out around the country will not stop until solutions have been found to the 3,000 claims made by persons who have not been able to collect their wages.
Hidalgo made this announcement after having attended a meeting with the director of the Minerd cabinet, Julio Santana. Hidalgo said that during the meeting, carried out during a vigil by educators in front of the Ministry, they established the creation of commissions from the union and the Ministry in order to initiate the reviews.
The ADP says that 80% of the nearly 4,000 teachers whose paychecks have been blocked by Education, are fulfilling their duties in the schools. According to a recent audit of the Ministry of Education it was unknown where nearly 4,000 “professors” actually provided their service and therefore their pay was put on hold.
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Diario Libre
24 August 2017
