Mexico Lower House Approves Final Part of Divisive Education Reform Dave Graham - Reuters
go to original September 2, 2013

Members of Mexican police stand amidst a molotov cocktail burning during a protest against President Enrique Pena Nieto's reform agenda in Mexico City. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

MEXICO CITY - Mexican lawmakers on Sunday approved the final part of a bill to reform an education sector that badly underperforms global peers, legislation that has prompted thousands of school staff to protest in the streets.

The lower house approved so-called secondary laws that regulate the tests that President Enrique Pena Nieto says teachers should take periodically to ensure they are up to standard or lose their jobs should they flunk.

Thousands of teachers have marched in the capital in recent days to rail against the education reform, and on Sunday groups of masked youths lobbed rocks at police in riot gear in the capital, who responded with tear gas.

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