Notas sobre la modernización educativa de Carlos Salinas de Gortari, 1992

Abstract

In contemporary Mexico, political authorities have worked in the educational field to reduce illiteracy rates, bring education
to the entire population, as well as reduce social inequality through schooling. Such was the project implemented by the
first Secretary of Education, José Vasconcelos, who, with the birth of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), promoted a
federalization process, since the SEP had and exercised the legal powers to establish new schools, design and implement
study plans and programs, and other educational policy measures throughout the country. To achieve this, agreementsconventions
were signed with almost all the states in order to fully comply with the mandate of Article Three of the Political
Constitution of the United Mexican States. This work is based on the original purposes of the SEP, placing them within
the framework of the educational modernization project of the late twentieth century, in addition to analyzing the changes
to various constitutional articles and the repercussions on the efficiency orientation that basic education took. as well as
the results that were far from what was expected.