Mexico: Government, Teachers Talk About Education Reform

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The head of the Public Education Ministry in Mexico, Aurelio Nuño assured that education reform is not the problem but the solution to bring the country today to modernity, while groups of teachers reject it.

Nuño added that only through education will be possible to break the existing inequality in Mexico.

He stressed that to eliminate those differences is necessary to end those existing in the educational system and can provide better infrastructure to schools across the country, particularly the most disadvantaged areas.

He also reiterated that the institution will soon deliver the new educational model, with curriculum and textbooks that will come along with the reform.

He announced that the investment of 50 billion pesos (about 2.7 billion dollars) intended to promote school infrastructure, is expected that by the end of this year half of it will be allocated.

He stressed that "it is the largest investment in decades" and noted that it is part of the education reform, which leads to provide decent living conditions for schools for the benefit of six million students.

Official figures indicate that 11 percent of public schools lack toilets and 10 percent are not connected to the electrical power, he said.

The day before, teachers of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) kept partially blocked roads in the southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca in opposition to this reform.

Other CNTE teachers marched from the monument to the Angel of Independence to the Zocalo, but the capital police blocked the way to the latter place again, sources reported.