{"id":30352,"date":"2011-08-25T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/15-wage-increase-for-public-school-teachers\/"},"modified":"2011-08-25T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:43:56","slug":"15-wage-increase-for-public-school-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/08\/25\/15-wage-increase-for-public-school-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"15% wage increase for public school teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Leonel Fernandez has ordered a 15% wage increase for public school teachers starting this August and authorized the creation of 8,915 new jobs for teachers. He said he would submit a Supplementary Budget Bill for RD$4.6 billion to Congress to improve school facilities nationwide. This is in addition to the RD$5.4 billion that had originally been planned in adjustments to the budget this year. This would bring the total budget to RD$46.5 billion this year. <\/p>\n<p> Education Minister Josefina Pimentel said the wage increase totals RD$1.14 billion, RD$477 million will be budgeted for the new teacher jobs and RD$2.25 billion for improvements to educational infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p> The president of the Public School Teachers Association (ADP), Radhames Camacho said the increase fell short of the requested 30%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Leonel Fernandez has ordered a 15% wage increase for public school teachers starting this August and authorized the creation of 8,915 new jobs for teachers. He said he would submit a Supplementary Budget Bill for RD$4.6 billion to Congress to improve school facilities nationwide. This is in addition to the RD$5.4 billion that had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/08\/25\/15-wage-increase-for-public-school-teachers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[230,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}