Palestinian public school teachers to end two-month strike

The Palestinian education ministry announced on Tuesday that the academic year for Palestinian public schools, originally to end in the first week of June, will be extended one week, in order to compensate for the loss in class time due to the month-long general strike by public school teachers. The decision came after news circulated last Thursday about an agreement being reached between representatives of the Independent Teachers’ Movement, a non-official assembly of teachers running the strike, and the Palestinian government, at a meeting in Hebron on Wednesday. According to Palestinian med…

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