The Secretary of Public Education (SEP), Mario Delgado, went to the Senate this Tuesday on the occasion of the Report on the 1st year of government of President Claudia Sheinbaum, to present the educational policies, in which explained the efforts that are being made to ensure that no one is left without being able to study due to lack of resourcesin addition to the adoption of health measures and measures to combat addictions in schools.
Delgado assured that . More than celebrating the World Cup, we will celebrate the decrease in the rate of education in the country, “2026 is going to be the year that will be remembered, because we are going to raise the white flag of UNESCO, where we eradicate illiteracy in Mexico: We are going to declare our country a territory free of illiteracy, by reducing it to less than 4%” commented
He said that the literacy of the people who have suffered the most from exclusion and backwardness should not be left aside.
He also reported that Beca Rita Cetina will be extended next year to all primary school studentswell This with the objective of eliminating any type of economic barrier and that “education is a right and not a privilege”.
Other strategies were exposed by Delgado; such as those that are to combat mistreatment and bullying, as well as sexual violence in schools, health ones that prohibit the sale of junk food in schools and brigades of specialists from the IMSS, the DIF and the federal and state Health Secretariats, to carry out size, weight, visual and oral health checks. Incluso afirmó que todas las escuelas afectadas por las lluvias de fechas recientes será reparadas.
The secretary highlighted that in the Fourth Transformation they are allies of the teaching profession, so now they are treated as what they are (education professionals) and even recognizing them with a salary recovery.
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