The Committee of Contractual Teachers in the Public Sector has called for a Cabinet session dedicated to public education, specifically focused on the following points: increasing teachers’ salaries to be equivalent to those of professors at the Lebanese University, raising the wages of contract teachers, and funding school budgets at the national level.
In a statement released on Sunday addressing the Caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, and the members of his government, the committee stated that they bear a “national responsibility to save the public education sector from collapse and to review the rights of students and teachers.” According to the contract teachers, this issue “should have been addressed months ago, not at the beginning of the school year.”
