Overview
- The Secretaría de Educación Pública published the anteproyecto on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, making the draft publicly available on the Plataforma Integral de Gobernanza Regulatoria.
- The proposal fixes the basic education school year to start on Monday, August 31, 2026 and end for students on Friday, July 9, 2027, with escuelas normales concluding on July 13, 2027.
- The draft respects legal requirements by keeping 185 effective school days for pre‑school, primary and secondary levels and 190 days for teacher training institutions.
- It preserves an added week of recess for teachers in August and lists scheduled Consejos Técnicos Escolares, administrative ‘descargas’ and a series of planned 'mega puentes' that would create about eight long weekends for students if unchanged.
- The calendar is not yet final and will take legal effect only after the SEP completes the regulatory process and the agreement is published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación, a step that will determine whether dates stay as proposed and how families, employers and schools must plan.