{"id":142648,"date":"2024-06-26T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=142648"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:32:05","slug":"edu-ministry-issues-notice-over-functioning-of-schools-tomorrow-amid-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/06\/26\/edu-ministry-issues-notice-over-functioning-of-schools-tomorrow-amid-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Edu. Ministry issues notice over functioning of schools tomorrow amid strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Education states that all schools across the island will function as normal tomorrow (June 27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was communicated in a statement issued by the Ministry of Education this afternoon (26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers\u2019 Union (CTU) Joseph Stalin stated this afternoon that the teacher-principal trade unions will continue their strike action tomorrow as well, protesting against the firing of tear gas and water cannons to disperse their protest march in Colombo today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teacher-principal trade unions engaged in an island-wide trade union action by reporting sick leave today (26) based on several demands. At the same time, the members of the trade union launched a protest in Colombo which commenced from near the Colombo Fort Railway Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the non-academic staff of the government schools are also engaged in a strike action, demanding a national policy for the non-academic service in the education sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Education states that all schools across the island will function as normal tomorrow (June 27). This was communicated in a statement issued by the Ministry of Education this afternoon (26). However, the General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers\u2019 Union (CTU) Joseph Stalin stated this afternoon that the teacher-principal trade unions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}