Mexican Education Study Finds 'Exorbitant' Salaries, 'Ghost' Schools Tim Johnson - McClatchy
go to original May 15, 2014

Mexico has been embroiled in a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal in its education sector, Press TV reports. (PressTV/PigMine5)

MEXICO CITY — Thursday marks national teacher appreciation day in Mexico, but new data about the salaries of some public school teachers may only make parents less happy with their schools.

More than a year after an education overhaul in Mexico, a private research center said Wednesday that it had found hundreds of teachers making “exorbitant” salaries, scores who earn more than the nation’s president, hundreds of “ghost schools” - which siphon off funds but don’t exist - and even hundreds of schools that don’t have electricity.

In Hidalgo state, the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness reported, the payroll shows 1,440 supposedly active teachers aged 101 - all with the same birthday, Dec. 12, in the year 1912.

More than 7,100 teachers earn more than the equivalent of $93,100 a year, the institute said. Seventy are paid more than the $180,000 or so earned by President Enrique Pena Nieto.

There are 812 schools in the state of Guanajuato that receive funding but don’t in reality exist.

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