translated from Spanish: Undersecretary Figueroa and absence of Cubillos in the Senate: “Parliamentarians knew it would not make it to come”

Undersecretary of Education Raúl Figueroa said on duna radio that the differences with the College of Teachers in the negotiation by which teachers maintain the unemployment that extends for five weeks, is in three subjects: the historical debt, the subject of the curriculum , “which means the implementation of institutional change” and the bonus for differential educators.
Regarding the last point, Figueroa stated that “that bonus is paid to the extent that teachers have additional training in a subject, and they do not receive it because they do not meet that requirement”.
The Undersecretary of Education reiterated that in the Opinion of the Executive, the key to the teachers’ decision to maintain the mobilization lies in what he called “a power struggle” within the College of Teachers.
“One would expect greater leadership (…) there is a struggle for leadership, Gajardo’s statements, which are unaware of the leadership of the guild’s president, of course, influences the foundation.”
“Full leadership needs to be exercised where the supply that the Ministry is delivering is recognized,” he added.
On the request of the president of the College of Teachers, Mario Aguilar, who raised the option for President Piñera to intervene directly in the negotiation, Figueroa said that “the work is done of the ministry and this is carried out as a team where the industry that has the tools to get the job done.”
In addition, the Undersecretary of Education referred to the controversy after the minister of the field, Marcela Cubillos, was quoted to the Senate, a session that he did not attend, as his agenda contemplated observing the solar eclipse with the president in the Coquimbo region.
“That session failed because it was poorly done. The minister’s visit to the eclipse was scheduled long ago. The minister’s agenda was well known and the parliamentarians knew it would not come to be here,” she said.

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