adminTens of thousands of teachers have demonstrated in Mexico City, many pledging to disobey an education reform passed by Congress and championed by President Enrique Pena Nieto.Mexico’s Senate overwhelmingly passed a sweeping reform of the dysfunctional public school system early on Wednesday, handing Nieto an important victory in his push to remake some of his country’s worst-run institutions. “The only way to defend what is being taken from us today is through mobilisation”
The Senate gave the nod to the final so-called secondary law of an education bill that regulates the tests that Nieto says teachers should take periodically to ensure they are up to standard. New teachers could lose their teaching jobs if they fail.The Lower House approved the bill on Sunday.
The Senate debated the issue on Tuesday evening and in the early hours of Wednesday morning voted 102-22 in favour of a standardised system of test-based hiring and promotion that would give the government the tools to break teachers unions’ near-total control of school staffing.
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