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Bedolla Lauds Education Chief as Michoacán Trumpets Four-Year School Gains

State officials point to measurable improvements and system overhauls they say are restoring enrollment and order after the pandemic.

Overview

  • Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla publicly praised Secretary Gabriela Molina as the 'Wonder Woman of Education' while highlighting results from his fourth-year report.
  • The administration reports a 3.2% drop in educational lag, equivalent to 159,000 additional students in classrooms, with more than 1,247,000 now attending across all levels.
  • Officials cite over 2 billion pesos invested in educational infrastructure and more than 300 rehabilitated learning spaces, including university campuses.
  • Socio-educational programs such as school shoes and literature books reportedly reached 400,000 students this year across the state.
  • The state says it delivered labor-justice actions for 82,000 education workers, expanded continuous training to 14,000 teachers, rolled out payroll cardization, and instituted public, rules-based job assignments and Ceneval exams for teacher colleges, while coordinating with the federal government to extend scholarships to primary students next year.