Mexican government suspends salaries for dissident school teachers
Mexican government suspends salaries for dissident school teachers
The first official census on how many educators are on the public payroll is released
El Gobierno mexicano dejará de pagar a los maestros disidentes
Luis Pablo Beauregard Mexico City 20 DIC 2013 - 19:10 CET
Until now, Mexico has never known exactly how many teachers are on the public payroll. This important figure has always been kept a top secret by the National Syndicate of Education Workers (SNTE), the teachers union which has held a powerful grip on the government as a pressure group for many decades.
President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration, which wants to curtail the SNTE’s influence, has said it needs to know the precise figure of how many teachers actually teach in the classroom in an effort to develop effective educational strategies.
So for the first time on Tuesday, Education Minister Emilio Chuayffet gave out preliminary numbers and said that the final official figure of pre-school, elementary and high school teachers will be released in March.
As of now the Education Ministry has counted 2,144,991 teachers for Mexico’s more than 25 million students.
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