HE EDUCATIONAL REFORM IS ALREADY GENERATING BENEFITS
The first initiative that boosted the Mexican Government to transform the country was the Educational Reform. With that the right for qualitative education was elevated to constitutional range. Meeting this right includes improving schools and teacher professionalization. Nowadays, the benefits of the Educational Reform are already in the schools:
• In 2014 – 2015 23,182 full-time schools serving more than 3 million students of basic education are operating. In 12,248 of them 1 million 587 thousand students are benefiting from nutritious food services.
• In 2013 240,000 laptops and in 2014 709,824 tablets were distributed between students of fifth and sixth grade of public primary schools and their teachers.
• With the implementation of the Educational Reform 20,154 schools were affected which have received directly 7,567.2 million pesos from the government since then.
• In the Program of Honorable Schools, 10,329 schools participated in 2013 and 2014, with an investment of 8 million 64 thousand pesos, with one million beneficiary students. On the other hand 199,189 School Councils of Social Participation were created.
• 1,743 Communal Tele-High School is operating with 43,000 subscribed students.
• The Prepa en Línea-SEP was created, which currently has 24,000 students that can increase to 150,000 until 2018.
• The offering of the Opened and Distance University was extended and now provides 17 undergraduate courses, 18 higher technical college programs and 2 postgraduate courses, what is more, it has 89,127 students.
• The National Program of Scholarships awarded scholarship to almost 7.7 million students in the last year.
• 6,637 special services of the primary education were improved; 154 Centers of Attention for Higher Education Students with Additional Disabilities were installed in the country and the Informal Bachillerato for Students with Disabilities was launched as a Distance Learning System.
• For the first time in the history of Mexican education National Competitive Examinations were conducted to select suitable personnel for public education services. From August 2014 to February 2015, 33,280 teaching posts have been allocated in basic education and 9097 teachers and management positions in upper- and secondary education.
