PULSE NEWS MEXICO More than 25 million Mexican public preschool, primary and secondary education students are due to return to in-person classes on Monday, Aug. 29. Mexico’s 2022-2023 school year will last through July 26 of next year, with an obligatory and controversial study plan designed by the Public Education Secretariat (SEP) to showcase the government of President Andrés Manuel
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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 ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER There is no doubt that the Mexican government’s hasty declaration that the covid-19 pandemic is over was motivated by politics and economic interests, not medical science. The administration of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) didn’t even wait until the daily coronavirus death toll had dropped before issuing a jump-the-gun covid all-clear “green” infection risk
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By KELIN DILLON Barely one full week after their reopening, 39 Mexican public schools once again temporarily shuttered their doors to in-person classes after a number of their student populations tested positive for covid-19, said Secretary of Public Education (SEP) Delfina Gómez on Tuesday, Sept. 7. A total of 88 schools throughout Mexico reported positive cases, representing .06 percent of
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 30, more than 25 million Mexican students and 2 million teachers finally returned to in-person classes after more than 17 months away from educational centers due to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic — though not without widespread uncertainty and controversy around the move. First, the National Union of Parents (UNFP) noted a distinct
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one week prior to when in-person classes are slated to begin in nationwide, the Mexico City Health Secretary Oliva López Arellano said Monday, Aug. 23, that even in the event that a positive case of covid-19 is detected, all schools will remain open. López Arellano said that if infections are registered within a
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Despite the growing number of new cases of covid-19 in Mexico during the third wave of the pandemic, the return to in-person classes is still uncertain. As of Friday, July 30, at least seven Mexican states had reported critical hospital occupancy levels, above 70 percent, while, in most other states, the number of confirmed
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the return of the city’s prior yellow-light cautionary grade of covid-19 infections (after a brief reprieve of green), Mexico City educational authorities on Friday, June 18, announced the suspension of all face-to-face classes starting on Monday, June 21. “Given the announcement issued by the Public Health Secretariat … the Federal Educational Authority in
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By KELIN DILLON Students in the Mexican state of Jalisco have been given the go-ahead to restart in-person education by the state’s government, despite not yet receiving the green light on the Mexican government’s traffic-light covid risk ranking system, something the federal government staunchly insisted states would need to reopen schools, until now. Jalisco, located along Mexico’s western Pacific coast,
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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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