Santo Domingo. – The Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic (Minerd) today rejected that it is attacking the electoral process of the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP) and reminded teachers that they should not use it as an excuse for not teaching in the educational centers of the Dominican Republic. public pre-university system.
The educational portfolio called on the union to act sensibly and sanely, after leaving without legal effect or value the act of notification of constitutional action for protection that it filed against the ADP in Barahona, where the children have not been able to minimally comply with the school calendar.
This was communicated through a sheriff’s act to the president of the section of the teachers’ union, Miguel Ángel Felix, this morning. Since the court did not even hear the case, the ADP accounts have not been affected by any action by the ministry.
He minerd He maintained that the consistency, systematicity and academic rigor required by the teaching-learning process cannot be jeopardized because then the results that Dominican society requires and expects are not seen.
Through a press release, Education also made it clear that it has not canceled any teachers in the province of Barahona.
He recalled that in Regional 01, of Barahona, there are 22 cases of teachers that the Comptroller General of the Republic identified who receive two salaries in different State institutions doing work during the same working hours.
Minerd explained that no State official or employee can simultaneously hold more than one paid position.
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“Duplicity on the public payroll is prohibited and teachers who understand that there has been an error in their suspension can go to the Comptroller General of the Republic to clarify their situation by presenting the labor certification of their respective jobs,” stated the educational institution.
The ministry indicated that what cannot happen is for teachers to leave students without classes claiming that they must be incorporated immediately because the union is in elections.
