The 965 teachers for whom the Ministry of Education has withheld their monthly salaries will receive their pay in this month of September 2017. The decision was taken as a result of an agreement between the Ministry and the president of the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP), Eduardo Hidalgo, in which he promised that the blocked teachers would present evidence on their status and whether they were actually teaching.
Hidalgo said that all of the blocked teachers would be paid their September wages and the outstanding months would be paid by check 10 to 15 days later.
The Ministry created a list of 8,000 teachers whose work status was questioned. Following a preliminary re-evaluation of their original list more than half of the teachers in question were integrated back into the system. Still, the status of some 3,928 teachers has not been vetted by the Ministry.
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El Dia
El Nuevo Diario
28 September 2017
