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La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 3, 2024, p. 24
The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric (left), yesterday presented a bill that seeks to settle the call historical debt of teacherswho were affected in their salary scale when the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) transferred the administration of State schools to the municipalities. The initiative establishes a fiscal payment mechanism in progressive installments to the 60,000 teachers who were harmed for decades by the military regime’s measure that took place in 1981. Each teacher recognized by an official list of cases will receive 4,615 dollars, which will be They will pay in two installments and in age groups, starting with the oldest. In the image, the president with his Minister of Education, Nicolás Cataldo, during the signing of the respective bill, yesterday in Santiago.
