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Weekly Report - 04 June 2015 (WR-15-22)
MEXICO: Education reform in tatters
President Enrique Peña Nieto signalled notice of his reforming intent when he took down Elba Esther Gordillo, the powerful leader of Mexico’s main teachers’ union, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE), on corruption charges shortly after taking office in December 2012. He then pushed through an education reform designed to improve the poor standard of teaching in Mexico dramatically. Peña Nieto might have emasculated the SNTE but the country’s second largest union, Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE), staged a series of protests in Mexico City and its powerbase in southern Mexico. The federal government held strong then but now it has buckled, suspending tests to evaluate teachers which are the cornerstone of the education reform. Why?
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