Africa-Press – Cape verde. announced that it will begin the process of reconfiguring the Decree-Law that regulates the Career, Position and Remunerated Functions Plan (PCFR) for Teaching Staff, transforming it into a Bill to be submitted to the National Assembly. The measure, although it will take longer, aims to create the legislative framework necessary to implement the teacher career management program, ensuring an improvement in the pay scale and stability in the education system.
The announcement was made today by the Government in a press release after the President ruled out the possibility of reconsidering the veto to the Government decree-law that approves the PCFR for teaching staff.
“This path may take a little longer, but it is the only one that allows the Government to create the legislative conditions to implement its Government Program in this matter of teacher career management,” wrote the Government.
The Government states that the President’s decision jeopardizes the implementation of the new Teacher Pay Scale and “conditions the gradual realization of its expectations of improving pay conditions and the valorization of the class.”
However, it reiterates its commitment to the teaching profession and guarantees that it will use “all constitutional means at its disposal to guarantee the regularization and stabilization of teaching careers”, within the country’s structural restrictions.
In refuting that the teaching career was “practically stagnant until 2016”, the Government emphasizes that the new PCFR, much more advantageous in terms of remuneration and career development, reflects the commitments made to the profession since then.
The same source states that the PCFR was submitted to the President for promulgation on August 6, 2024, who communicated the veto on September 4 and requested its reconsideration.
In response to the express request of the President of the Republic, it continues, the Prime Minister responded formally on September 5.
Still on the veto, the Government clarified that it presented legal arguments to the President for reconsideration, but the veto was maintained for political reasons.
“The Government clarified and refuted all the legal arguments used by the President of the Republic to justify the veto and requested that the veto be reconsidered, since the legal arguments supporting it were not in the least convincing or consistent. Yesterday, 12 September, the President of the Republic publicly reiterated his veto, clarifying that it was a “political veto”, and did not contest any of the legal arguments presented by the Government in its request for reconsideration of the veto. He maintained his political position”, argued the Government.
In the same statement, the Government recalled that it is implementing a robust educational reform with a review of the curricula for primary and secondary education, a new national system for assessing learning and socio-educational inclusion policies.
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