translated from Spanish: Good news that payroll federalization is about to be realized, says Michoacano deputy

Michoacán.- For Michoacán it is very good news that the signing of the Agreement between the Federal and State governments will be made in the next few days, since this will allow to remove a strong pressure on the state finances, the Deputy Antonio Antonio stressed in a statement Soto Sánchez, member of the Parliamentary Group of the Party of the Democratic Revolution in the LXXIV Legislature of the State Congress.
The MP noted that the announcement made this week by Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo allows encouragement in the face of the complex problem of resources for the education sector in the state, as it represents a different scenario for state finances 2020.
It recalled that the weight imposed on the state since accession to the National Agreement for the Modernization of Basic Education concluded on 18 May 1992, and the Convention on Education which was signed on 15 December 2014, caused serious damage to finances have made it unsustainable for Michoacán to continue funding the basic and normal education system.
“It has become clear that the Government of Michoacán in proposing the federalization of payroll, a viable alternative so as not to financially collapse the State and guarantee the right of the Michoacans to education, because it did not renounce social responsibility but that an affirmative exit to the problem was sought and built with the Federal Government,” he said.
Antonio Soto Sánchez emphasized the great responsibility and seriousness with which this issue has been operated, as the financing of education had become for the state a structural problem that conditioned the development of the state, because it could not count on to boost economic growth, attention to basic infrastructure and vulnerable people.
“It is therefore to be celebrated that more than a year after the Michoacan government made the approach to the Federation, federal awareness has been achieved, and through a work route and joint review we are on the eve of the signing of an agreement that Without a doubt, it generates new horizons for the development of the state,” he said.
It welcomed the existence of certainty about payroll federalization, which is significant for Michoacán, teachers and students.

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