Tijuana, May 18.- Baja California's Secretary of Education, Gerardo Solís Benavides, confirmed that approximately 500 classrooms are lacking teachers and that the state is in the process of providing them.
"We have around 500 groups to cover in the state, and we're doing it in an orderly manner so that teachers don't feel their employment status is being violated. They have to be given a written document to send to the school stating, 'I'm a temporary worker, and if you give me my paperwork, you'll pay me.'"
Two months before the end of the school year, hundreds of students still remain without teachers. The school calendar indicates that the last day will be July 29th, meaning they spent the entire school year without teachers.
Solís Benavides stated that the debts owed to interim teachers predate this administration and that the current payroll has been covered by the state's teaching staff. He explained that payment delays are due to paperwork that prevents teachers from receiving payroll payments and asserted that the state and federal governments have the funds to meet their obligations.
