The Daily Populous Friday July 24th, 2026 evening edition
Authored by mexicosolidarity.com and submitted by ArgentineBeauty

This article by Fernanda Monroy originally appeared in the July 13, 2026 edition of Contralínea, a Mexican investigative journalism magazine.

The government of Mexico will invest 58.415 billion pesos in educational infrastructure during 2026, the highest amount allocated by the federation to improve schools in the country, reported President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who emphasized that the funds will be spent without counting the additional contributions of the state governments.

During her morning press conference, the president explained that the investment will be channeled through programs such as La Escuela es Nuestra (LEEN) and the Multiple Contributions Fund (FAM), with the purpose of rehabilitating and strengthening basic, upper-secondary, and higher education campuses.

It is a historic investment of 58 billion pesos for the country’s schools, without counting what the states invest directly; this is only what we invest from the government of Mexico.

For his part, the Secretary of Public Education (SEP), Mario Delgado Carrillo, detailed that, of the total resources, 37.715 billion pesos will go to basic education, of which 22.694 billion correspond to the LEEN program and 15.021 billion to the FAM.

He specified that 10.9164 billion pesos will be invested in upper-secondary education, funds that will make it possible to build 31 new National Baccalaureates, carry out 80 expansions, four reconversions, and set up 370 campuses of the Margarita Maza National Baccalaureate, creating 156,240 new spaces for students.

In higher education, he added, 9.7839 billion pesos will be spent to strengthen the infrastructure of institutions such as the Rosario Castellanos National University, the National Technological Institute of Mexico, the system of Technological and Polytechnic Universities, the Normal Schools, the Benito Juárez García Universities for Well-Being, as well as intercultural and state universities and other classroom expansion projects.

In turn, the director general of La Escuela es Nuestra, Pamela López Ruiz, reported that during this year the program has benefited 71,482 schools through a social investment of 22.694 billion pesos, distributed with priority to campuses located in areas of greatest marginalization, vulnerability, and social lag.

She explained that the program serves everything from Multiple Attention Centers, initial education, preschool, primary, and secondary, to upper-secondary education campuses, with 100 percent coverage in public secondary schools and high schools incorporated into the scheme.

Sheinbaum Pardo noted that this investment adds to other actions promoted by her administration to strengthen the education system, among them the Well-Being Scholarships, salary increases for teachers, the Well-Being Pension Fund, and the school-by-school consultations to improve the teacher mobility system.

“There are many actions and programs to improve the education of the girls, boys, and young people of our country and to guarantee access to education as a right,” she affirmed.

Likewise, the head of the SEP reported that, together with the educational support programs, the federal government expects to close 2026 with 22 million students benefiting from the Well-Being Scholarships at all educational levels.

Average_human_bean on July 24th, 2026 at 16:14 UTC »

Don't get too excited, people. Most of that will be redirected to the current administration's allies. I know it looks good on paper but it's nothing more than nice PR. If you believe it to be true, I recommend you take a look at any random public school in Mexico and then judge.

VegetableYesterday63 on July 24th, 2026 at 13:32 UTC »

Meanwhile in the US we are banning books, cutting funding, forcing teachers to follow a script, rewriting history and falling behind as our Secretary of Education and the rest of the administration don’t have a clue what they’re doing and don’t care

ArgentineBeauty on July 24th, 2026 at 13:27 UTC »

58 billion peso's is around $3.3 billion, which is huge amount. It's nice to see it going into education where it can actually do some good.