Overview
- Education Secretary Mario Delgado announced a nationwide consultation running from October 2025 to March 2026 to design a new, fairer and more transparent mobility system to replace USICAMM, which he labeled “nefasta.”
- The consultation will be conducted school by school across the country to gather teachers’ needs and build the successor framework for career progression and mobility.
- SEP highlighted completed benefits for the workforce, including the basification of nearly one million teachers, an added week of vacation, and a 10% pay increase composed of 9% retroactive to January plus 1% from September.
- Delgado honored teachers on International Teachers’ Day and described the magisterio as the engine of educational transformation under the current reform agenda.
- Authorities cited program gains such as strengthened indigenous education involving 23,895 teachers and leaders, along with gender, inclusion, peaceful coexistence and socioemotional programs benefiting 39,562 educators, as unions like the SNTE continue pressing for USICAMM’s replacement.