JTA president-elect warns teachers to mobilise against 'dangerous' JTC bill

WESTERN BUREAU:La Sonja Harrison, the president-elect of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), is urging teachers to prepare themselves for renewed opposition to the proposed Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill, which she has described as “an ever-present danger”. According to Harrison, the new bill will leave teachers outnumbered on the governing teaching council, strip accused teachers of pay during investigations, and place too much power in the hands of the minister of education.

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