Students and Police Clash Over Unpaid Teachers' Salaries in Liberia

Students from Monrovia's public schools clash with police on Tuesday, October 15, against the Liberian government's failure to pay teachers' salaries since July.
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READ MORE: They are angered by the ongoing teachers' strike over missed salary payments. The teachers' action means the students are unable to take their exams, and the school children are demanding the government remunerate them.
The teachers are on a partial strike demanding full payment for the last two months saying they only got 20% of their Liberian dollar salaries for the month of August. Some teachers, not all, get part of their pay in U.S. dollars.
The Association said teachers would not return to work until they received their entire salaries in both currencies. As a result students from the public education system have been unable to take their exams this week.
The Monrovia Consolidated School System Teachers' Association on October 11 said they would take "Go-Slow action" from Monday and called on all teachers to "lay down their chalk" until the government pay their August and September salaries and stop deducting their insurance premium which they accuse the ministry of education of not disbursing to the insurers. (Reuters)

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