President Claudia Sheinbaum received Section 22 of the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) at the National Palace this Thursday, August 14, and reached an agreement to create 1,300 teaching positions and more than MXN 6,300 million in scholarships, according to the union's secretary general, Yenny Aracely Pérez Martínez.
The meeting fulfilled the commitment Sheinbaum made on July 31 in Santiago Suchilquitongo, when a contingent of teachers submitted their list of demands, Proceso reports. The agreements take effect on September 1 with the start of the 2026-2027 school year and include the regularization of hours, reclassifications, and new positions at all levels of basic education in the state, according to the joint statement from the Secretaría de Educación Pública and the Secretaría de Gobernación cited by Expansión Política. The meeting did not modify the General ISSSTE Law, one of the items at the top of the teachers' prior agenda. For Oaxaca, one of the states with the greatest educational lag in the country, the agreement means new positions and scholarship resources from the first day of classes.
On the scholarship side, the Rita Cetina Scholarship will have universal coverage for 197,983 secondary school students, and 372,436 primary school students will receive support for school supplies and uniforms. The Benito Juárez Scholarship covers 148,675 upper secondary students and Jóvenes Escribiendo el Futuro covers 35,248 higher education students; together they total more than MXN 6,300 million, according to data from the Secretaría de Educación Pública. The federal government has also delivered furniture and computer equipment to more than 23,000 schools in the state and agreed to a working group with the Comisión Federal de Electricidad to guarantee electricity service at school facilities. Pérez Martínez said that payment for the positions will be made in the second fortnight of October and warned that, if the commitments are not met, Section 22 will resume mobilization.
On September 2, the Secretaría de Educación Pública, the Secretaría de Gobernación, and Governor Salomón Jara will hold a follow-up meeting with Section 22. That meeting will determine whether the agreement advances as agreed from the first day of the 2026-2027 school year.
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