PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Israeli Embassy in Mexico and the members of the Judeo-Mexican Volunteers donated 20 computers on Monday, Dec. 12, to a primary school in Mexico City’s Venustiano Carranza municipality. The embassy and the volunteers also helped set up a computer center in the State of Israel Elementary School, with the objective of helping the students improve their
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By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexican Judge Martín Santos ruled to suspend the Secretariat of Public Education’s (SEP) controversial pilot educational program on Monday, Sept. 26, Federal Judge Francisco Javier Rebolledo put yet another amparo against the SEP plan, stopping the program’s implementation into 960 public schools across Mexico in its tracks. The pilot program has been
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AMLO’s Fourth State of the Nation Address
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER After a resounding failure to pass his controversial electricity reform bill in the April 17 vote at the Chamber of Deputies, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his leftist, in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have set their aim on yet another target: the opposition. That campaign is gaining traction by Morena further
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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
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) must be having a hissy fit. Already furious that his absurd electricity reform bill (which would have rewritten the Mexican Constitution to prioritize the use of energy generated by state-owned, carbon-based providers over clean, private-sector alternatives) got dashed by a united opposition in the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The education reform being imposed by Mexico’s leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration — which will affect both curriculum and texts for all levels of public education, from pre-school to high school — is nothing short of a political rewriting of history to favor the institutionalization of the president’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena)
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By KELIN DILLON Over 30 million Mexican students resumed their public education on Monday, Jan. 11, following the end of the Christmas holidays. Most states in the country will be taking part in the third installment of the Secretariat of Public Education’s (SEP) virtual Learn-at-Home program. The Learn-at-Home initiative is a collaboration between the Mexican government and various national television
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Haphazard School Kickoff The school year in Mexico kicked off on Monday, Aug. 24, with all of the failures expected from a nation not accustomed to remote education. With classes at home, parents from all over the country complained first about the communications system failure as teachers responsible for their groups groped to find alternative education methods.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Back to School the Broadcast Way Thirty million Mexican public education students will return to classes on Monday, Aug. 24. The one difference in their education will be that they will stay at home and “attend school” through television broadcasts. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Public Education Secretary (SEP) Esteban Moctezuma announced the new
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