Hundreds of teachers who object to recently imposed educational reforms are staging protest marches Saturday in several Mexican cities, while the Public Education Secretariat, or SEP, is evaluating thousands more for the acceptance and promotion of teaching staff.
The biggest mobilization is taking place in the Mexican capital, where professors from Mexico state are marching from the Angel of Independence monument to the Los Pinos presidential residence, where they will demand a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto or with some representative.
In a statement to local media, Victor Rodriguez, a member of Section 36 of the SNTE teachers union, said they reject the "punitive evaluation" and "the application of modifications to constitutional articles 3 and 73, because they violate our labor rights and the guarantee of a real quality education for everyone."
Marches are also underway in Guadalajara, capital of Jalisco state, and in the Acapulco municipality in the state of Guerrero, among others.
On July 4, 5 and 6, a total of 46,783 teachers will take exams that include tests of knowledge, teaching and writing skills, and class planning.
The exams are required in 30 states of the country to compete for acceptance and promotion to fill 6,487 positions that entail direction, supervision and technical counseling in secondary education.
The SEP announced Friday that it was suspending the evaluation of high school teachers in the states of Oaxaca, Michoacan and part of Chiapas because the conditions for its application there are lacking.
The first teacher evaluation, a result of the educational reform enacted in 2013, was applied last June 20, 21 and 22 to elementary school teachers in 30 states not including Oaxaca and Michoacan, where it was suspended following threats of a boycott by the CNTE
Hundreds of Educators March in Mexico Against Teacher Evaluations
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