Cuba faces school shortages as academic year begins
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State-run Granma framed the school-year start as a celebration even as Cuba's education system faces unprecedented shortages and disruptions. The system is short about 24,000 teachers (12.5% of posts), produced only 2.2–2.3 million uniforms of the 3.6 million needed, and the World Food Program reports 48.5% of children aged six to 11 do not receive school meals or snacks. Daily power outages exceed twenty hours in some places, and transport and sanitation problems affect schools. The government has allowed teachers to work at multiple institutions and shifted some university teaching to part-time or distance formats, which may reduce in-person learning access.
Cuba lacks about 24,000 teachers for the school year.
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The state newspaper Granma posted a celebratory message before classes began. The article reports falling supplies, long power outages, and transport failures. The government has allowed multi-school teaching and more part-time or distance…
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