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Criticism mounts in Iraqi Kurdistan over unpaid teacher salaries

Teachers say the Kurdish government is not paying on time and want their salaries to come from Baghdad, but Kurdish authorities point to a budget dispute with the federal government.

Adam Lucente
Adam Lucente
May 21, 2020
An Iraqi Kurdish music teacher gives a music lesson at a summer school in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on June 17, 2014. The Kurdish region has been receiving displaced Iraqis fleeing nearby areas in northern Iraq taken over by militants, lead by jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in a swift offensive in which they have said they intend to advance on Baghdad. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty
An Iraqi Kurdish music teacher gives a music lesson at a summer school in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on June 17, 2014. — SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images

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