About 200 teachers marched yesterday through the streets of Viseu.

February 17, 2009

Continue to fight against the evaluation model

Teachers returned to the streets yesterday in protest against the status of the teaching profession and the model for evaluating performance - two of the main points of divergence between the class and the Ministry of Education. In Viseu and Lamego about 400 teachers marched in protest, with the promise that it will not "sag" in the words of Francisco Almeida, manager of the Union of Teachers of the Central Region. Only the district of Viseu more than one hundred teachers entered for the human chain scheduled for Lisbon on March 7.

Further south, in Coimbra, the Secretary-General of Fenprof, Mário Nogueira, warned that teachers can return to stiffen the protests during the third period classes, with strikes and demonstrations. "Since strikes Vai is all on the table, an hour until the evaluations by the end of the school year and this will be the teachers to decide," he said at the end of a House that brought together 250 teachers and educators. In the week that begins on April 20, teachers will be consulted on what type of action to protest want to achieve.

The union leader also announced that Fenprof will edit the 'Black Book' of educational policy in March or April. "The Government has commissioned several reports to get some praise, and will also have this order," he said.