The independent National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers (CNTE) is boycotting teacher evaluations now underway and staunchly opposes the so-called education reforms, claiming they are part of a strategy to privatize education and make education workers’ rights more precarious. The recently appointed Education Secretary Aurelio Nuño, a former advisor to President Enrique Peña Nieto and reportedly one of the architects of the neoliberal reforms, said over the weekend that there is no place for protests against the reforms and that dissident teachers will be punished. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico for teleSUR
