Teachers march today

[NewsWhore]

The Dominican Teachers Association (ADP) will hold simultaneous marches throughout the country today, heading towards the Ministry of Education or the Regional Offices. Yesterday the ADP executive committee reviewed a document containing all the proposals that will be submitted to the ministry as part of the action plan launched by the union, which is aimed at forcing the government to assign 4% of the GDP to its education budget. Maria Teresa Cabrera, president of the ADP, and a Vice-Presidential candidate for the MIUCA party, told Diario Libre reporters that the march would begin at 9am, setting out from Independence Park towards the Ministry of Education building. Education Minister Alejandrina German has designated Luis de Leon to receive the ADP proposals.

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