Mexico teachers attack political party offices
- 11 years ago
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Angry teachers on Wednesday (April 25) attacked offices of Mexico's main political parties in the capital of the southwestern state of Guerrero to protest against an education overhaul, breaking windows, spray-painting walls and starting fires.
Dozens of teachers opposed to President Enrique Pena Nieto's new education reform ran riot in the city of Chilpancingo, trashing installations of his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the main opposition parties as well as leftist rivals Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Police were nowhere to be seen.
Teachers in Guerrero, home to the popular beach resort of Acapulco, are fighting the legislation that aims to revamp the country's failing education system by imposing tougher oversight of teaching standards and cracking down on abuses.
The law takes away control of teacher assessment from a powerful teachers union and seeks to end the practice of teachers pas
Angry teachers on Wednesday (April 25) attacked offices of Mexico's main political parties in the capital of the southwestern state of Guerrero to protest against an education overhaul, breaking windows, spray-painting walls and starting fires.
Dozens of teachers opposed to President Enrique Pena Nieto's new education reform ran riot in the city of Chilpancingo, trashing installations of his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the main opposition parties as well as leftist rivals Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Police were nowhere to be seen.
Teachers in Guerrero, home to the popular beach resort of Acapulco, are fighting the legislation that aims to revamp the country's failing education system by imposing tougher oversight of teaching standards and cracking down on abuses.
The law takes away control of teacher assessment from a powerful teachers union and seeks to end the practice of teachers pas