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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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
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The democratic political life of Mexico, as in many other Latin American nations, is relatively young. In the last decade, a new chapter began in the construction of Mexican politics after the sudden arrival to the presidency of a newly created party. Breaking through and eventually displacing the parties that historically held political hegemony
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Public Education Secretariat (SEP) announced Saturday, Oct. 9, that all students of basic education return to face-to-face classes in November, given the fact that very few covid-19 infections have been reported so far this school year. Therefore, SEP Secretary Delfina Gómez said that all kindergarten, primary and secondary students will be required to
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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 KELIN DILLON As Mexico fast approaches its Aug. 30 start date for in-person education for children, the implementation of its back-to-school plan has been fraught with confusion for Mexican families nationwide. Some parents have noted that their children who go to public and private schools have two different returns to class, with the public schools being completely in-person while
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By JESSICA GUERRERO Last week, Mexico’s Public Health Secretariat acknowledged that the country had surpassed the 3-million-case mark of covid-19 cases. And those were just the confirmed cases. Because of low testing rates and questionable recordkeeping practices, many national and international medical experts estimate that the real number of covid cases in Mexico could be 25 or 30 times higher
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By KELIN DILLON New reports have revealed that Mexico’s in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) used 64 shell companies to issue 2,445 invoices totaling to 31 million pesos over the years, a practice it has long admonished and lambasted opponents for doing. Morena has allegedly used these ghost invoicing companies since the party’s creation in 2014, beginning the practice just
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Thursday, Aug. 12, the head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) Delfina Gómez announced the nation’s 10.step plan for the return to in-person classes, which are set to resume on Aug. 30, after more than a year long break caused by the covid-19 pandemic. “Why open schools? Children need shelter due to
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