Alexia Villasenor
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, November 21, 2024, p. 11
After a meeting without strong answers
To its budget demands, the National Front of Higher Secondary Education Unions (FNSEMS) announced a mobilization in the Chamber of Deputies and the Ministry of Public Education on Thursday, November 28.
After a two-hour meeting in that chamber with the president of the Education Commission in San Lázaro, María de los Ángeles Ballesteros García, the front indicated that despite having agreed last week that federal authorities from the Secretaries of Education and Finance and Public Credit, the Undersecretary of Higher Secondary Education, Tania Rodríguez Mora, nor any representative from the SHCP did not appear, which they considered a lack of commitment and respect
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Last Tuesday, November 12, members of the FNSEMS, created three years ago and made up of four subsystems of upper secondary education – telebaccalaureate and the High School, National Technical Professional Education and Scientific and Technological Studies schools, blocked for more than four hours access to the Chamber of Deputies in demand of greater resources, in the context of the delivery of the Draft Expenditure Budget of the Federation 2025, in response to which They were received by Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, president of said chamber, among other deputies, and agreed to meet this week together with officials from the SEP and the Treasury.
The leader of the front, Blas Escobedo, informed this newspaper that due to the absence of said authorities, they decided to call the march next Thursday, therefore, Although we spoke with the president of the Education Commission, she does not have the decision-making capacity as does the Political Coordination Board or the other federal authorities.
. He pointed out that next Tuesday they will hold another meeting in San Lázaro, to report on how the negotiations with the federal authorities are going. He stressed that the dialogue is open and reported that they presented a proposal in the Chamber of Deputies to reallocate the budget.
