Surely the National Teacher Incentive Fund (Fonid), which was being renewed in the country more than 20 years ago,
is not the best idea
to solve the problem of teacher salaries.
Surely this instrument
, which was born as aid from the Nation to the provinces within the framework of an educational plan and the emergency of the late 1990s, must be
reformulated .
The national government is surely right that
the provinces should review their spending priorities
and that now it is not necessary for the Nation to come to the aid of some jurisdictions to pay the salaries of provincial employees, such as teachers.
But there are
moments, ways and contexts
to have these discussions and these “battles”.
A
better
- smarter - moment could have been
with the school year already started
, with the students inside the classrooms.
Everyone knows that February is a conflictive month with the teaching unions, who have more room to stop schools.
Why not wait a little?
Another issue is
the modes
.
Is it useful to cut educational funds suddenly and as retaliation to governors just because they dropped the omnibus law?
On the other hand, the national State already has assigned the Fonid items in the budget.
Clarín
learned that they are working on replacing it with another fund that, instead of going indiscriminately to the salaries of all educational personnel, serves to
“strengthen literacy policies.”
Why don't they make it explicit?
But the most important thing is
the context
.
That of a
brutal fall in the purchasing power of salaries
due to the very strong adjustment defined by the national State itself.
The Fonid represented between 10 and 15% of the nominal salary of teachers.
And now it's not coming.
The national State has the
“main and non-delegable”
responsibility
to
“provide comprehensive, permanent and quality education for all inhabitants of the Nation, guaranteeing equality, free and fairness in the exercise of this right
. ”
It also has the obligation to
“set the educational policy and monitor its compliance.”
This is what the current Education Law says.
President Milei often repeats:
“Education belongs to the provinces.
What do I have to do as a Nation by getting in there?
”.
Video
From the Education portfolio they had confirmed to Clarín that they would call the joint meeting.
Someone explain to him that he has
a lot to do
.
Or, at least,
a lot so as not to complicate it
.
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