Mexico’s López Obrador attacks teachers through right-wing education reform
By Alex González 6 April 2019
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (popularly known as “AMLOâ€) has proposed education legislation that preserves the framework of compulsory teachers’ evaluations and school privatizations introduced under the previous right-wing government of Enrique Peña Nieto.
During last year’s presidential campaign, AMLO explicitly campaigned on the promise of repealing the 2013 education legislation. These “reforms†attempt to scapegoat teachers for the lack of basic school infrastructure and students’ social and economic conditions that make it challenging—and sometimes nearly impossible—to teach in a classroom.
The proposal by AMLO’s party, the Movement for National Regeneration (Morena), retains the main features of the previous legislation. Teachers will still be subject to standardized testing that will determine whether they are hired or promoted. Meanwhile, the country’s crumbling schools and the entrenched poverty that plagues half of the population will remain intact. While teachers will supposedly no longer be fired for low test scores, this can be reversed either by AMLO or by future administrations.
Read more at: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/06/mexi-a06.html
WSWS stands for "World Socialist WebSite" , so it's the Socialists but it's the socialists criticizing the Mexican president and AMLO, Amador Miguel Lopez Obrador is thought to be leftist himself. So, this is an interesting juxtoposition. If anyone objects to this webiste being used, I'll gladly listen. I didn't see this story elsewhere. WSWS is interesting to read sometimes and is probably not, say irreverent and antagonistic as some news outlets like Salon or maybe even Mother Jones.
