{"id":57488,"date":"2014-09-30T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=57488"},"modified":"2014-09-30T19:45:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:45:14","slug":"teachers-on-strike-in-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/09\/30\/teachers-on-strike-in-santiago\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers on strike in Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Dominican Teachers Association (ADP) members in Santiago went on a 24-hour strike yesterday, Monday 29 September 2014, affecting classes in several schools. Students were sent home due to the strike.<\/p>\n<p> Teachers&#8217; representatives said that they were on strike because some teachers had had their salaries cut for no justifiable reason, while others had not been paid. They attribute the situation to a lack of organization in the Regional Education authority.<\/p>\n<p> According to the teachers, the education system in Santiago is in a real mess. They are also accusing the regional educational director, Tercida Franco, of discrimination against teachers who are not supporters of the ruling PLD party. <\/p>\n<p> School is back to normal today, Tuesday 30 September 2014, but the teachers have not ruled out other one-day strikes.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rFh66qDQlv\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/profesores-paralizan-docencia-en-santiago\/\">Profesores paralizan docencia en Santiago<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#8220;Profesores paralizan docencia en Santiago&#8221; &#8212; Hoy Digital\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/profesores-paralizan-docencia-en-santiago\/embed\/#?secret=rFh66qDQlv\" data-secret=\"rFh66qDQlv\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Teachers Association (ADP) members in Santiago went on a 24-hour strike yesterday, Monday 29 September 2014, affecting classes in several schools. Students were sent home due to the strike. Teachers&#8217; representatives said that they were on strike because some teachers had had their salaries cut for no justifiable reason, while others had not been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/09\/30\/teachers-on-strike-in-santiago\/\" 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":[233,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57488"}],"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=57488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}