Weekly Report - 31 March 2011 (WR-11-13)

HONDURAS | Strike and Zelaya. A teachers' strike has entered its fifth week, leaving around 2m primary and secondary schoolchildren unable to attend class. President Porfirio Lobo is playing hardball, denouncing the strike as illegal and insisting that teachers will be suspended without salary from 4 April for one year unless they return to work. A heavy-handed police response to the strike claimed the life of one teacher and left dozens injured in clashes. Some 60,000 teachers in six unions are protesting against the “municipalisation of education", by which they mean the bill the government sent to congress decentralising education, transferring to municipalities the financial auditing of schools and oversight of teaching standards. It also allows greater participation of parents and the Church in committees to set goals and objectives for schools (see sidebar).

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