Mexico’s New President Launches Massive Educational Reform for Country [View all]

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President Enrique Peña Nieto has proposed a bill to reform Mexico’s educational system, following through on one of the pledges he made in his Dec. 1 inaugural address.

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The reform plan, which requires changes to the constitution, calls for measures to objectively evaluate teachers’ performance and the creation of a professional teaching force without interference from unions or other groups.

The measures, according to education experts, are designed to take control of the hiring of teachers away from the powerful SNTE teachers union.

Teaching positions, in many cases, become lifetime or hereditary jobs.

I wonder what the name of Pearson's subsidiary in Mexico is?