Overview
- The government presented the Plan Nacional de Educación 2026–2031 on Monday, proposing a curricular redesign that officials say will remove “all types of ideology” and recast 1980s–90s political violence as “terrorism.”
- Minedu says the redesign will cut content overload to focus on core competencies including critical thinking, reading comprehension, mathematical reasoning, technical training, civics, financial education and English.
- The ministry announced it will reinstate a national exam for entry to the Carrera Pública Magisterial with a minimum passing score of 14 and create a Programa Nacional de Excelencia Docente that links teacher training to formative evaluations.
- Historians and civil-society voices have warned the move risks politicizing historical memory and erasing documented state abuses from classroom accounts, citing concerns about attacks on the Comisión de la Verdad’s findings.
- Teacher leaders and unions demanded published curricular texts, a clear timetable, transparent evaluation rules and guaranteed delivery of textbooks to remote areas because the ministry has not yet released implementation details.