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New SEP Textbook Content Controversies Compound
Hundreds of education specialists have protested the publication and distribution of the free textbooks, claiming the materials indoctrinate children into the government’s ideologies and prevent them from developing necessary skills for adult life
Read moreFamilies of Collapsed School Victims Reject Sheinbaum’s Belated Apology
“In an instant, corruption killed all the hopes and dreams we had for our children. It snatched from us the experiences we’ll never share,” said Mireya Rodríguez, whose seven-year-old daughter Paola died in the collapse.
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Read moreAnother Amparo Befalls SEP’s New Educational Plan
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
Read moreJudge Orders Restoration of Mexico’s Full-Time School Program
By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Sept. 7, Mexico’s Third District Judge in Administrative Matters of Mexico City, Yadira Medina Alcántara, enacted a nationwide amparo (legal injunction) to restore the country’s Full-Time Schools program (ETC), which was controversially ended in anticipation of the implementing the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) led government’s The School is Ours (LEEN) initiative by the end of
Read moreReturn to Class Overshadowed by Mexico’s Controversial New Curriculum
OPINION By KELIN DILLON As more than 25 million members of Mexico’s school-aged population returned to class on Monday, Aug. 29, to begin the new school year, controversy is running abound surrounding the staggered implementation of the Mexican government’s contentious and newly created curriculum – an syllabus widely criticized by international educational experts yet still vehemently defended by departing Secretary
Read moreAMLO Flies to Cuba to Broaden Two-Way Ties, Get Decoration
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) flew to Cuba on Sunday, May 8, to meet with that island nation’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel. During his daylong visit, López Obrador, who was accompanied by his top military brass, placed flowers at a monument for Cuban poet José Martí, who is considered the ideologue of the
Read moreSEP Pivots Full-Time School Funding to Parents
By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, March 23, Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced that it would divert funds saved by the controversial cancellation of the country’s Full-Time Schools (ETC) program to affected children’s parents, though many education experts have raised concerns that this move will not positively affect the schooling of the nation’s children and could potentially be misused
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