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JTA President La Sonja Harrison
With the countdown now on to the start of the 2022/2023 academic year, concern is being raised about the capacity of government-run schools to meet the nutritional needs of students amid the rise in food prices.
According to La Sonja Harrison, President of the Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA), schools have not received an increase in the grant to operate canteens, up to now, with classes scheduled to resume on Monday.
Ms. Harrison, speaking Monday on Radio Jamaica's Beyond the Headlines, warned that this will place an additional burden on school administrators.
The JTA President also disclosed that schools are just receiving allocations from the Ministry of Education with five days to go before classes resume.
She said the distribution of textbooks got off to a late start as well.
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