Issues in Educational Administration in Mexico

Abstract

In 1992, Mexican authorities and Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación, (SNTE, National Education Workers Union) signed an agreement to decentralize the educational system called ANMEB (National Agreement on the Modernization of Basic Education), in which the Ministry of Education transferred basic education services to the 32 states of the country. Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP, the Federal Ministry of Education) still had the power to allocate money and enforce a national curriculum. SNTE, considered the largest and most powerful union in Latin America with 1.5 million affiliates, allowed the reform with the condition of keeping its status as national union.

Citation

María García Garduño, J., Slater, C.L. and López Gorosave, G. (2009), "Issues in Educational Administration in Mexico", Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) Educational Leadership: Global Contexts and International Comparisons (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 377-397. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3679(2009)0000011015