In the midst of the conflict with the Nation over the withdrawal of the Provincial Fiscal Strengthening Fund, the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof stated this Friday that President Javier
Milei "did the impossible so that classes could not start"
throughout the country, since They took out "resources such as the Teacher Incentive Fund", thereby "cutting off part of the teachers' salaries."
"This time,
starting classes is more than an effort, it is a feat
. The Milei government did the impossible so that classes could not start.
They say 'they don't see it', but I say they don't feel it, they don't understand it
, the importance that there are classes every day," Kicillof shot when leading the ceremony to begin the school year in the province of Buenos Aires, from Kindergarten No. 949 in Florencio Varela.
In his speech, the president highlighted that the national Executive "cut resources such as the Teacher Incentive Fund saying 'we are going to melt all the governors and with that'
they cut a part of the salaries of the teachers of Argentina
."
"I'm not talking about politics, I'm talking about political decisions that were made. They cut a part of the salary of all teachers in Argentina. Cutting a part of their salary represents a difficulty and there has already been a response," said Kicillof, making reference to the teaching strike that took place on February 26.
In contrast, the governor highlighted: "We had been in the province for four years to recover the salary that had been lost with the government that preceded us. And now the national government has changed and again an attack on teacher salaries."
"It is not by cutting back or with a chainsaw or adjustment that the problems in schools are going to be fixed," Kicillof stated, within the framework of a strong defense of public education.
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