Private Sector Covers Government’s Education Shortcomings
The National Commission for Free Textbooks commissions most of the production of Mexico’s educational textbooks
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Venezuelan Official’s Role in SEP Causes Uproar
The presence of former Venezuelan government official Sady Arturo Loaiza Escalona in the content-design team of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education has caused an uproar among educational experts in the country
Read moreMexico’s New Public Education Plan Built on 4T Ideology, Not Learning
By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, April 26, Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced it would be overhauling the nation’s public education system, replacing established textbooks and standardized exams with a curriculum based on the leftist ideology of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) so-called Fourth Transformation (4T). According to SEP Director of Educational Materials Marx Arriaga, the new
Read moreMexico’s Elimination of Full-Time School Program Draws Backlash
By KELIN DILLON Just days after Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced the end of the federal government’s Full-Time School program – which provided educational support, additional class hours, and hot food to 3.6 million of the nation’s most impoverished children throughout some 27,000 schools around the nation – in favor of funding infrastructure projects, the controversial move has
Read moreMexico’s Auditing Body Unsure of NAICM Cancellation Cost
By KELIN DILLON Three years after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) ordered the cancellation of the New Mexico City International Airport’s (NAICM) construction in Texcoco, the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) has given three different estimated reports of the cancellation’s cost, with no clear resolution on the project’s final price tag, leading to skepticism of the institution’s
Read moreAMLO’s Administration is All Talk, No Action
By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) fast approaches the close of the third official year of his term, his inconsistencies and penchant for overtly targeting his opponents have begun to become more clear than ever to the public of Mexico. López Obrador has used his platform of publicly broadcast press conferences every morning of the
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