Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that public university students in Zacatecas will be offered the Gertrudis Bocanegra transport scholarship and that informative assemblies for participating campuses will begin in September.
- The Secretaría de Educación Pública published changes to program rules in mid-July to broaden the Rita Cetina primary grant and adjust operation procedures for Benito Juárez and Jóvenes Escribiendo el Futuro.
- The federal government set aside about 58,415–59,000 million pesos for 2026 school infrastructure, with roughly 37,715 million for basic education, 10,916 million for media superior and 9,783.9 million for higher education.
- Some near-term steps are already scheduled: Rita Cetina annual deposits of 2,500 pesos will start in August via Banco del Bienestar, but key implementation details for the Zacatecas Gertrudis Bocanegra rollout—exact amounts, final eligibility rules and the institutional padrón—remain to be published.
- The Gertrudis Bocanegra model was piloted in Michoacán, where it serves about 55,924 higher-education students with an investment above 531 million pesos, and the SEP and scholarship coordination project roughly 22 million beneficiaries nationally in 2026.