By 2022, the schools that benefit from the La Escuela Es Nuestra program will receive financial support so that children receive food in schools without it being a requirement to extend the study day from six to eight hours.
This was announced by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) after modifying the Rules of Operation of the program and through which it seeks to replace the public policy Full-Time Schools, which was canceled for this 2022.
“The Rules of Operation establish that the food service is the complementary economic support provided through the School Committees of Participatory Administration (CEAP) in accordance with budgetary self-sufficiency, and to strengthen the health of students who are in communities with high rates of poverty and marginalization. This will contribute to obtaining better learning and staying in schools,” the SEP said in a statement.
“The financial support may be used for the food service, even if the CEAP decides not to extend the hours of the campus.”
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We publish in the @DOF_SEGOB agreement by which the Rules of Operation are modified in order to incorporate into the Program #LaEscuelaEsNuestra an extended schedule and feeding.https://t.co/cKkVj39Dmm
— SEP Mexico (@SEP_mx) April 29, 2022
This April 28, in the evening edition of the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the SEP announced the agreement to modify the rules of operation of the Es Nuestra School program which, in addition to contemplating the improvement of the conditions of physical infrastructure, equipment, didactic material of the campuses, will now establish an extended schedule of between six and eight hours a day, as well as food service.
Public schools of initial, preschool, primary and secondary education in their different modalities, Multiple Care Centers, may be beneficiaries.
“The agreement (…) points out the importance of implementing specific strategies to reduce bad practices in the use of social programs, with emphasis on the direct delivery of resources and without intermediaries,” the SEP added.
For this year, the School Is Our program has an approved budget of 13,964 million pesos, but for next year and in order to implement the benefits of extended hours and food in more than 110,000 schools in the country, the Secretary of Education, Delfina Gómez, asked the deputies for a 129% increase in the budget and authorize 32 billion pesos to implement this public policy.
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The official went to the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday where she defended the cancellation of the Full-Time Schools program after they warned that 73% of the schools served in the 2020-2021 school year were not located in places with high degrees of marginalization.
In addition to the fact that of the 27,067 schools served by the program, just over half were rural, 30% urban and only 18% indigenous. Only 14,739 schools provided food to one million 427,000 children, which means that 46% did not provide the service that the instrument supposed.
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