The training reform introduced by the Colombian Authorities collapsed in Congress following the president of the Senate, Iván Title, confirmed to native media that the initiative won’t be debated on Thursday on the final day of legislative periods.
The draft Statutory Schooling Legislation solely wanted one debate to be accepted. Throughout its legislative course of, the Authorities achieved consensus, not solely with the allied events, but in addition with the opposition events.
On that date the session of Congress ends, so there is no such thing as a longer sufficient time to comply with the legislative course of.
A ‘retouched’ reform that educators oppose
Hundreds of educators, referred to as by the Fecode academics union, have been on strike since final Thursday and protest in opposition to the undertaking. They declare that, throughout their legislative course of, the opposition launched articles that they consider will hurt them and public training.
Because of this, for the final debate it was deliberate that there might be three shows and few consensuses, which is why the president of the Senate stated that the initiative won’t be debated.
An ideal change in Colombian training
The invoice represented an vital change in Colombian laws as a result of it sought to broaden public training from ages 5 to fifteen, established by the Structure, to a few grades of preschool and college training, and thus replace the nation’s instructional system to worldwide requirements.
Nonetheless, declaring training a basic proper would forestall trainer strikes, a way continuously utilized by the Colombian Federation of Educators (Fecode) to stress completely different governments.
This union additionally opposed the invoice as a result of it establishes that evaluations of academics for promotion within the educating ranks will keep in mind the efficiency of scholars as proof of the academics’ educating capacity.
The president of Fecode, Domingo Ayala, acknowledged within the Plaza de Bolívar, in entrance of the Capitol, the place academics have been protesting since final Thursday in opposition to the initiative, that they are going to proceed protesting till Thursday as a result of they don’t belief Congress.
“The everlasting nationwide strike has not been lifted,” Ayala stated in entrance of the group gathered in Bogotá.
Bogotá / EFE
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2024-06-22 05:25:40
