Teachers protest unready schools, education budget

PANAMA schoolteachers and administrators are planning a major demonstration to draw attention o the many schools in the country that have not started classes and others in bad condition.

The  “great march” will start at the Republic of Venezuela School in  Calidonia -chosen because it has perennial problems-.

The teachers’ unions hope to have thousands of educators on the march set for April 27, when they will not teach. They will assemble at 10 a.m.  and at 2 p.m. will demonstrate in the vicinity of the presidential palace.

They emphasize that the current government signed agreements with them but they have not been met

Educators are calling for  the budget  for education,  to  be 6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) .