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Weekly Report - 25 June 2015 (WR-15-25)

MEXICO: Education reform back on track

After suspending the teacher evaluation tests, part of the education reform approved in 2012-2013, in a bid to take the sting out of the protest campaign led by the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) teachers’ union against the reform ahead of the 7 June midterm federal legislative, state and municipal elections, the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto is now looking to get the testing and the reform firmly back on track. But with the CNTE still determined to oppose this, the issue looks set to become one of the main political challenges that Peña Nieto will face in the second half of his single six-year term ending in 2018.

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