Mexico City — Mexico’s Education Secretary Mario Delgado announced a 9% salary increase for teachers across the country during a Teacher’s Day event led by President Claudia Sheinbaum at a historic venue in the capital.
The increase, which includes both salary and benefits, is part of the government’s ongoing effort to restore teachers’ purchasing power after decades of erosion, Delgado said.
“We have agreed with teachers on a 9% salary increase, composed of benefits and salary recognition,” Delgado stated. “This maintains the trend of real wage recovery for teachers, which in just seven or eight years under the governments of transformation has already overcome the backlog accumulated during the long neoliberal night of more than 35 years, when year after year teachers saw their purchasing power decline.”
President Sheinbaum noted that last year teachers received a 10% raise. “We made a great effort for this salary increase. I know it would be better if it were double, but we are in the framework of building a new country where public resources are distributed to the people of Mexico. Whatever we can do for the teachers of Mexico, we will do, in permanent gratitude to you,” she said.
Sheinbaum praised the work of educators, saying, “Happy Teacher’s Day to all teachers, from the bottom of my heart. Mexico would not be what it is without the national teaching profession, for the work they do every day, not only in education but in building a free and democratic country.”
The president also highlighted that public education is the best education in the country.
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