In full pandemic for the Covid-19, deputies from different benches, including those from Morena, warned that Prepa Online It is in danger, since they reduced 75% of its budget, so they demanded that the Treasury and the owner of this program clarify their status.
In this sense, Juan Pablo Arroyo Ortiz, Undersecretary of Higher Middle Education of the Secretary of Public Education (SEP), asked the deputies to carry out a coordinated action between the agency and the Lower House, through the Education Commission, to put pressure on the Treasury and deal with the case of non-payment to more than 2,000 academics in the program .
In a virtual meeting with federal deputies, the official acknowledged that almost 2,000 academics and facilitators who serve 153,000 people who attend the program have not been paid.
He explained that it is an educational system financed with fee resources, included in item 3000, which was affected by a 75% cut and that it is being attended by the head of Finance Administration, Óscar Flores, who in turn is in contact with the Treasury , to speed up payment.
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Arroyo Ortiz said that it is important to maintain this program because the decree of austerity indicates that no one will be fired and that it is a priority, as it serves vulnerable people, students with disabilities and those who cannot attend a school.
He announced that the distance education directorate will be created to avoid conflicts with the payments of those who make up the Online Prepa program: “We cannot leave so many people without education, and we cannot leave all staff out of a job.”
For their part, members of the Education Commission asked SEP officials to clarify the reduction in the program budget and also demanded explanations for the lack of payment.
EL UNIVERSAL published last Sunday that the collective Pact for Early Childhood, which brings together 173 civil society organizations, launched an alert because 6.5 million children under the age of six are at risk and could be affected in their health and physical and emotional development by the budget cut that 15 programs would suffer.
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However, in the case of Prepa en Línea, the president of the Education Commission, Adela Piña (Morena), promised to meet with the legal department of Finance and the program administrator, to clarify the status of people who do not have received your payment.
The deputy Carmen Patricia Palma (Morena) maintained that for months the teachers have not been paid, and questioned the fate of the 258 million pesos destined to rehabilitate 2,500 schools in their water supply.
Regarding dropout at the basic level, he asked if a specific statistical evaluation for the pandemic is carried out.
Juan Pablo Sánchez (Morena) commented that in the 2020 Federation Expenditure Budget he proposed a readjustment for Online Prepa, because during the pandemic it is a necessary modality.
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He mentioned that various high schools in the State of Mexico are in deplorable conditions, although they are located in private places where rents of up to 25 thousand pesos are paid.
For her part, the deputy Kehila Abigail Ku Escalante (MC) reported that there are schools in which the appointment of the director concluded from January 31, 2019, but that extensions have been issued preventing other teachers from occupying that position.
On the part of the PRD, the deputy Abril Alcalá Padilla considered counterproductive that this distance educational program is in danger, and commented that a large percentage of parents cannot pay for the internet, so they asked to make agreements with telecommunications companies to provide access to education across the country through this tool.
The deputy José Luis Montalvo (PT) regretted that neither the Secretary of Public Education (SEP) nor that of the Treasury have been able to solve the problem of the academics who in six months have not received their salary due to a cut.
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