Normalista Students Block Morelia Avenues While CNTE Teachers Occupy Education Secretariat
Trained teachers were protesting the lack of placements, while the CNTE union demanded the state government meet its hiring and salary obligations.
Trained teachers were protesting the lack of placements, while the CNTE union demanded the state government meet its hiring and salary obligations.
Critics point to the alternative teaching and learning model of the CNTE, which aims to bring students and the community closer together.
The teachers union will mobilize to ensure the Mexican President honours her 2024 campaign promise.
The CNTE teachers’ union leadership pointed out that the federal government “has only offered delaying tactics; its statements are far from the reality experienced by thousands of teachers throughout the country.”
Teachers from Valles Centrales disrupted a political event orchestrated for a new party being formed by ex-governor of Oaxaca Ulises Ruiz Ortiz , responsible for repression against teachers in 2006 which led to 20 murders & multiple disappearances.
The teachers say bureaucratic procedures have delayed funding as well as computers and projectors for schools, which have been needed since AMLO’s term.
An interview with Eligio Valdes, General Coordinator of CNTE Michoacan.
Deductions taken from the more than 12,000 teachers for participating in the recent national strike will be reimbursed in the second half of August.
4T administrations have opted for agendas replicating the crisis of progressive Latin American countries: prioritizing partisan hegemonies of agreement with right-wing parties; and encouraging the electoral mobilization of citizens as the only valid form of political participation.
All the teachers’ demands are justified, and repeal of the ISSSTE would not just benefit all public sector workers, but all workers, says teacher Ángel Custodio Guadarrama in this interview.