Petrina Francis, Education Reporter
RUEL REID, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), has expressed concern that the 50 per cent concession for children of teachers at high school is still unsettled.
In April, the Government announced that it would pay 50 per cent of tuition fees for all children in secondary schools. But a 1996-1998 agreement was already in place where the Government pays half of the school fee for the children of teachers.
Mr. Reid said that if the 1996-1998 agreement is to hold, teachers should only be paying one half of the fees that everybody else is paying.
He was speaking on Wednesday at the organisation's press conference, held at its head offices in Kingston.
The JTA boss said the Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson, is waiting for advice from the Attorney-General to determine whether there has been a breach of the agreement that was made between the Government and the teachers.
