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Mexico & Nafta - August 2016 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Proposed new education model fails to convince
The federal government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto has tabled a new national education model through which it intends to implement its 2013 education reform. This model is open to discussion by the sector’s stakeholders, including teachers. The government’s intention is to appease the combative Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE), Mexico’s second largest teachers’ union, which has been staging highly disruptive and increasingly violent protests against the education reform for the past three years. However, the CNTE’s reaction has been negative and, more problematically, the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE), the main teachers’ union, has also expressed its dissatisfaction. The government’s challenge now is to convince the unions that the introduction of a new model can be positive.
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