Following city-wide student strikes, the Minister of Education for Buenos Aires, Esteban Bullrich, has finally issued an announcement that the situation “is being normalized”.
Dozens of demonstrations and road blockades have occurred over the past 38 days, as secondary school and university students took to the streets to protest the poor condition of public educational facilities in the city.
The Unified Coordination of Secondary Students (CUES) are meeting this evening to determine whether they will put an end to the protests. Of the 30 schools that were occupied by students over the past month, eleven remain ‘taken’, but these measures may be lifted following this evening’s discussions.
Bullrich confirmed that all secondary school students will be required to fulfill their full 180 days of school per year. The schools in questions have since made amendments to their calendars in order to recover lost school days.
Furthermore, Bullrich has announced that he is working “community by community” to improve the safety standards of public educational facilities throughout Buenos Aires.
The Minister of Education for Argentina, Alberto Sileoni, also supports an increase in funds for public education, commenting that the city government “must invest more in schools.”
Although negotiations are going ahead, the CUES has planned another strike for this Thursday. Bullrich affirms that “the students have the right to march but the Ministry is meeting with the school communities in each of the schools” in order to reach an agreement.
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