Colombia’s teachers strike over pending education reform
Teachers laid down work on Wednesday for the first major strike since Colombia’s first leftist president in history took office. The strike was organized by teachers union Fecode in response…
Teachers laid down work on Wednesday for the first major strike since Colombia’s first leftist president in history took office. The strike was organized by teachers union Fecode in response…
Colombia’s teachers laid down work and are taking to the streets again on Thursday to protest against violence, substandard healthcare and the chronic underfunding of public education. The teachers’ strike…
Colombia’s public school teachers have gone on strike for the second time in a year. According to the teachers, the government failed to keep the promises made to end last…
60,000 public school teachers gathered on the streets of Bogota on Tuesday demanding a government response to a crisis in the sector that sees an all-out strike move towards a…
More than 8-million Colombian students have been out of the classroom since May 12 when public school teachers across the country went on strike to demand better wages and increased education…
A sixth teacher has been reported murdered in Colombia this year on Tuesday, highlighting continuing challenges for President Juan Manuel Santos’s promise to make Colombia “the most educated in Latin America.”
Teachers will assemble in every state capital of Colombia on Wednesday for a national strike organized by Colombian Federation of Educators (Fecode).
Schools throughout the country are closed as teachers represented by Colombia’s Federation of Educators (FECODE) walked out on indefinite strike Wednesday morning.
The president of the Colombian Federation of Educators said he will meet with the country’s head of state in order to avoid a national teachers’ strike scheduled to begin on…