Narodowski, Moschetti and Silvina 2013

Narodowski, Mariano; Moschetti, Mauro y Alegre Silvina. “Radiografía de las huelgas docentes en la Argentina: Conflicto laboral y privatización de la

educación”. Documento de Trabajo [Área de Educación, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires]: 2013: 1 - 18

• looking to see how and if teachers strikes actually affect the education system (3)
• have a count of strikes, don't have days lost for strike, but do have individuals' days lost for the cause of strikes (5)
• in comparison to other sectors, teachers strike a lot! (public and private put together are 37% of all strikes nationwide between 2006 and 2012
• and if you include non-teaching education workers it becomes 51%
• but there are LOTS of teachers as well, so that's boosting the numbers (6)
• Law 25.864 limits teacher strikes to 180 days per year, but obivously thisw law has been utterly ineffective, since teachers have gone on almost 3 million strike days per year between 2006-12 (7)
• lots of variation of strike days by province (8)
• shows that labor conflict with teachers is more of a provincial problem than a national one
• mroe often than not state teachers go on strike way more often than private sector teachers (8-9)
• there has been a growth in private school enrollment, not massive, but it seems bigger because, for the first time in history, it is causing a net loss in enrollments in public schools (citing another Narodowski)(10)
• at the national level, in broad terms, there doesn't seem to be a relationship between strike days and enrollments (grafico 4, 11)
• BUT ME: if you lag it a year, it might look closer...
• grafico 5 shows there isn't any obvious relationship between strike days and private school growth by province either (12)
• another model shows that the growth of number of total students, and funding levels have an effect of whether students go private or public, but strike days lost does NOT (14)
• Conclusions
• there is no edvidence that teacher strikes have an effect on students going to private schools instead of public ones (15)
• it could still be that families would prefer private school over public school due to teachers strikes, but the statistical evidence shows that if people hold this opinion they don't (or can't) act on it
• but public schools still have a bad institutional image as "closed schools"...need to fight this image (16)