TUNIS, Tunisia — Teachers in Tunisia moved out of their classrooms and into the streets recently, hoping yet another strike would teach a lesson to those who control public education's purse strings.
The April 17-24 strike was the latest move in a long-standing feud that threatens to throw the school calendar so far off that administrators are threatening to declare what they're calling a "gap year." If that happens, elementary and secondary students would neither pass nor fail, nor would they receive any credit for their work this year.