Morning Star.png Teachers Protest at Tests as Talks on Dispute Begin The Morning Star, London, 21 July 2016 Striking Mexican teachers marched in the capital on Tuesday as their CNTE union sat down to talks with the government over draconian education "reforms." Some 1,000 protesters gathered at the national teacher training college in the centre of Mexico City, carrying banners denouncing President Enrique Pena Nieto, whose government launched the performance tests in 2013. The CNTE says the tests do not measure real teaching skills, especially those vital in rural areas and among indigenous communities, but are simply an excuse for mass redundancies and privatisation of schools. At the talks, CNTE leaders were expected to present education officials with a list of demands for changes to the education reform law, including abolition of the tests. The talks began last month after police attacked teachers' protests in Oaxaca state on June 19, killing 12 people including nine in the town of Nochixtlan. See also: Paramilitaries Target Mexico Teachers with Police Permission <http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Paramilitaries-Target-Mexico-Teachers -with-Police-Permission-20160720-0035.html> From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-ee2b-Mexico-Teachers-protest-at-tests-a s-talks-on-dispute-begin#.V5BIUPl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13836 (20160721) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/003001d1e313%24541b15c0%24fc514140%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
