{"id":70797,"date":"2016-01-11T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=70797"},"modified":"2016-01-11T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T18:16:10","slug":"10-wage-increase-for-public-school-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/01\/11\/10-wage-increase-for-public-school-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"10% wage increase for public school teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Ministry of Education has announced a 10% wage raise for 89,000 public school teachers starting this month, January 2016. The raise also applies to administrative staff, and Ministry of Education retirees who receive less than RD$20,000 a month. The announcement means an additional RD$7.1 billion in wages. <\/p>\n<p> Minister of Education Carlos Amarante Baret said that an elementary school teacher will now be making on average RD$43,900 a month, a good wage in the Dominican Republic. Amarante said that in 2012, public elementary school teachers earned RD$26,259, which means that during the Medina Administration (from 2012 to 2016) teachers in the state sector have received wage increases of 67%, with accumulated inflation at 16% for the same period. <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2016\/01\/10\/403343\/educacion-dispone-aumento-salarial-para-maestros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education has announced a 10% wage raise for 89,000 public school teachers starting this month, January 2016. The raise also applies to administrative staff, and Ministry of Education retirees who receive less than RD$20,000 a month. The announcement means an additional RD$7.1 billion in wages. Minister of Education Carlos Amarante Baret said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/01\/11\/10-wage-increase-for-public-school-teachers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70797"}],"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=70797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}