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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In-person classes for grade-level students will return in Mexico starting on Monday, June 7, the Public Education Secretariat (SEP) announced Friday, May 28. The face-to-face classes to end the 2020-2021 school year will be conducted in accordance with all necessary covid-19 protocols, and will be voluntary and staggered in order to maintain social distancing
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Thursday, May 20, the creation of a national post-secondary level education program in sports training. “We are going to create a career, a profession, at the upper secondary level, for the training of sports technicians,” AMLO said during his daily morning press conference. “Nationwide, there will be
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By ADRIANA GARCÍA VALDERRAMA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that he foresees that as soon as all the nation’s education personnel gets vaccinated against the covid-19 virus, classes will return to “normal” to conclude the 2020-2021 school year with live classes. According to Mexican Secretary of Public Education Delfina Gómez, vaccination is already underway in Aguascalientes, Baja
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), headed by Delfina Gómez, has announced its intention to rework 18 primary school textbooks in just under two weeks as part of its “New Mexican School” concept, raising serious concerns over the quality of the new educational materials. The textbooks, specifically for grades three through six, will be reworked by teachers
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) has put an end to private schools’ dream of reopening for face-to-face classes, coming in a decision announced on Tuesday, Feb. 23. The National Association of Private Schools released a statement on Monday, Feb. 22, stating its intention to resume in-person education on March 1, following strict social distancing protocols. “The
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) formalized his nomination of Delfina Gómez Álvarez as the new head of the Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) on the morning of Monday, Feb. 15. Gómez replaces Esteban Moctezuma Barragán, who is anticipated to be ratified by the Senate Tuesday, Feb. 16, as Mexico’s newest ambassador to the United
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By KELIN DILLON The Mexican Secretariat of National Defense’s (Sedena) Military Equipment Payment and Administration Trust (Fidape) has reportedly increased its budget by 967 percent since the beginning of current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration in December 2018, according to figures released by the daily newspaper Reforma. When the previous presidency ended, Fidape’s trust sat at just
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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 Early Vacations Due to the imminent threat of a Covid-19 contagion, Mexico’s Public Education Secretariat (SEP) opted for stopping classes altogether for two weeks as of Friday, March 20. The two weeks will link up with the upcoming two week Easter vacation, slated to start on April 4. Classes will restart on April 20, providing for a
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