Going through Mexico in the Chamber of Deputies cited Delfina Gómez for Disappearance of Full-Time Schools

After on February 28, the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) reported on the publication of an agreement eliminating, at the federal level, the Full-Time Schools program (PETC), the Coalition Goes for Mexico in the Chamber of Deputies agreed to summon Secretary Delfina Gómez Álvarez in San Lazaro.

During a press conference, the coordinator of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Luis Espinosa Cházaro, indicated that the proposal for the Minister of Education to come and explain the disappearance of the program was made by his bench, and was approved by Morena and all political parties.

The perredist explained that the meeting will be held at the Working Table that will be installed on March 22 in the Chamber of Deputies, where the secretary will be questioned about the fate of the 3.6 million children and adolescents who benefited from the program.

“We will question why a program that was growing and that was well qualified, with a standard, with transparency, with results, will disappear, and we will ask where it was they will allocate the resources, they say they do not know, the problem that in the budget for 2022 was labelled an important resource for Full-Time Schools, and we know that with the background she has in Texcoco, Secretary Delfina Gómez does not have the best reputation for managing resources,” said Espinosa Chazaro.

He recalled that Full-Time Schools were created since the 2007-2008 school year, “with the aim of contributing to improving learning opportunities for students in basic education by extending school hours”.

Finally, Espinoza Cházaro trusted that the meeting “will be essential to define the future, not only of the affected families, but also of the country, since if we do not resume this scheme, we can expect an increase in school dropout, poor performance and greater social instability, putting our children at the expense of illegality and organized crime”.

For his part, the leader of the National Action Party (PAN) in the lower house, Jorge Romero, explained that the closure of full-time schools affects almost 30,000 schools and nearly four million students.

“More than half live in deeply marginalized areas, this government that says that first the poor, it is the ones who hit the most, we are talking about almost four million minors, this is an attack on the human right to education,” Romero said.

Finally, Rubén Moreira, coordinator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) bench and president of the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo) of San Lázaro, regretted that through a “unilateral” decision the SEP had abolished the program.

“They say it's a political issue because there are so few of them, well, it's the equivalent of more of the population of states like Sonora or Sinaloa, so we can measure the damage that is being done, but there is also the damage to a program that was increasing, and that affects teachers who are left without pay, parents, girls and boys”, lashed out.

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