WNU #1046: Puerto Rican Strike Shuts Down Schools

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1046, August 29, 2010

1. Puerto Rico: One-Day Teachers’ Strike Shuts Down Schools
2. Honduras: Cops Attack Striking Teachers, Again
3. Haiti: Camp Residents Continue Protests
4. Links to alternative sources on: Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Cuba

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*1. Puerto Rico: One-Day Teachers’ Strike Shuts Down Schools
A one-day strike by Puerto Rican teachers over budget issues and the need for additional teachers shut down about 90% of the island’s 1,500 public schools on Aug. 26, according to the Teachers' Federation of Puerto Rico (FMPR). The walkout was the largest teachers’ strike since early 2008, when the FMPR led a militant 10-day strike [see Update #938]. Interim education secretary Jesús Rivera Chávez called the Aug. 26 strike’s effect “devastating.” [...]

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