The Dominican Teachers’ Association (ADP) has called a 48-hour national teachers’ strike for next Monday and Tuesday, February 8th and 9th. The ADP says that the strike is necessary to force the Education Ministry to pay the incentives it has long promised teachers, stop deducting certain "unjustified discounts" from teachers’ salaries and to "comply with the law." For its part, the Ministry has called on ADP to dialogue rather than strike, particularly since a strike would adversely affect the testing cycle currently underway in most elementary schools.
