Reforma political columnist F. Bartolome wrote a short and punchy comment about the issue in his Thursday, Feb. 2, column: “With the SEP recommending that teachers read Lenin and Marx, they could well recommend Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to also read the Constitution. Just a suggestion”
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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
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By MARK LORENZANA In the new “Basic Education Curricular Plan” of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), high school students in Mexican public schools must learn in their civics subject the infrastructure works carried out by the government, which political party has promoted these works and if they were part of previous campaign promises. These are just a few examples of what
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OPINION By MARK LORENZANA There have been mostly negative reactions to the appointment by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Leticia Ramírez as head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), to replace Delfina Gómez Álvarez. Ramírez has not been in her position for more than a couple of days, and already the SEP had presented a “New
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By MARK LORENZANA After heaping praise on Delfina Gómez Álvarez for her tenure as head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his daily morning press conference on Monday, Aug. 15, officially announced the appointment of Leticia Ramírez to take over the leadership of the SEP. López Obrador assured the audience at the
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