1M Students Miss First Day of School as Teachers Strike Over Assessments PressTV
go to original August 20, 2013

Some 70,000 teachers participated in the work stoppage on Monday in mainly the southern state of Oaxaca to protest the measure that allows employers to deny teachers raises and promotions or even fire them, if they are deemed to be doing a substandard job.

The reform was passed in December 2012 by Mexico’s three main parties and pushed through the legislature by President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Meanwhile, on the same day an additional 100 teachers stormed the national assembly in Mexico City while lawmakers were debating a separate education reform law.

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