May 11, 2009
Teachers now mobilizing around the country
A 122 000 teachers, grouped in the National Educators Union (UNE), will go to the streets to protest the implementation of the system of assessment and accountability. Mery
Zamora, president of the UNE, said that teachers keep on fighting until the Ministry of Education announced a correction on the evidence of teaching evaluation.
In Quito, the teachers will meet at 10:30, school Mejia to start the protests by the Ministry agreement number 025, which regulates the implementation of the system of evaluation and accountability.
"We reaffirm our position of need. We call for the establishment of a comprehensive assessment process to the education system, "he said.
Zamora, who claimed to be protests in the country's 24 provinces.
UNE's president also confirmed his "position to confront and defeat the claims of the Education Minister Raul Vallejo, who, she says, seeks "to dismiss the Magisterium Ecuadorian their jobs. That makes "attack on our stability and constitutional guarantees," he said. War of words
Education Minister warned of sanctions for teachers who are absent from their work and explained that the assessment is part of a process that aims to improve public education at all levels.
This ad was rejected by Zamora, who said that "only he knows how threatening and that Vallejo is going to kick out the teachers. However, he never accountable to anyone for any inability and ineffectiveness that led to the failure in solving the problems of education in this country, "he said.
Zamora said that teachers do want to be evaluated, but in the process of training and updating.
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