SEP Head and State Officials Sign Plan for Early Childhood Education
Mario Delgado Carrillo, the Secretary of Public Education (SEP), led the signing of the “Plan de implementación para la Educación y Cuidados de la Primera Infancia. Una ruta para la transformación educativa 2025-2030” alongside state education officials across Mexico. This plan aims to address the constitutional mandate for the Mexican government to provide education to this population segment.
The Plan’s Objectives
- Strengthen coordination among various state education secretariats and institutions offering early childhood education to improve coverage and service quality.
- Guarantee the right to education and integral development for children aged 0-5 years and 11 months.
Key Figures and Their Roles
Mario Delgado Carrillo: Secretary of Public Education, leading the initiative to ensure comprehensive attention and educational services for children under six.
Angélica Noemí Juárez Pérez: Subsecretary of Basic Education, emphasizing the plan’s focus on revaluing social standing and political prioritization of early childhood education, expanding coverage, and enhancing quality.
Tania Rodríguez Mora: Subsecretary of Middle-Level Secondary Education, highlighting the successful electronic bachillerato certificate issuance in 2025 and the implementation of the Mi derecho, mi lugar platform.
Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí: Subsecretary of Higher Education, announcing the launch of SaberesMX’s first course on addiction prevention and mental health promotion.
Plan’s Eight Strategic Commitments
- Promote integration of essential care, health, nutrition, protection, and cultural services in early childhood education centers.
- Develop regional strategies to expand early childhood education coverage, prioritizing vulnerable and at-risk children.
- Strengthen quality standards, teacher training, educational materials, and support mechanisms for relevant, culturally situated, and holistic child development practices.
- Implement formative actions, community engagement, and communication strategies to foster respectful, sensitive, and participatory parenting practices.
- Develop awareness campaigns, shared responsibility mechanisms, and intersectoral actions to highlight early childhood education’s importance.
- Promote continuous teacher training, pedagogical support, and professional development focused on child well-being, autonomy, exploration, play, and holistic learning.
- Establish transition criteria, pedagogical guidelines, and inter-institutional coordination mechanisms to ensure continuity of learning experiences for children.
- Design, adapt, and implement transversal curriculum content that integrates health, play, emotions, and coexistence, actively engaging families and communities in creating healthy, safe, and affectionate habits and environments.
Additional Developments in Mexican Education
Tania Rodríguez Mora, Subsecretary of Middle-Level Secondary Education, reported on the revision and updating of regulations governing this educational level and the establishment of the National Bachillerato System under the New Mexican School model.
Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí, Subsecretary of Higher Education, announced the launch of SaberesMX’s first course on addiction prevention and mental health promotion, developed inter-institutionally with over 20 institutions, experts, and academic teams. The course has seen high participation with over 90,000 registrants and thousands of completions.
Alma Herrera Márquez, Rector of the National Rosario Castellanos University (UNRC), shared that in one year, 7,308 graduates have emerged from the university with a student body of 76,492, taught by 1,744 educators, 66% of whom hold postgraduate degrees. Seventy of these teachers are part of the National System of Researchers (SNI).
Key Questions and Answers
- What is the main focus of the plan? The plan aims to ensure comprehensive attention and educational services for children under six, focusing on early childhood education.
- What are the eight strategic commitments of the plan?
- Integrate essential care, health, nutrition, protection, and cultural services in early childhood education centers.
- Develop regional strategies to expand early childhood education coverage, prioritizing vulnerable and at-risk children.
- Strengthen quality standards, teacher training, educational materials, and support mechanisms for relevant, culturally situated, and holistic child development practices.
- Implement formative actions, community engagement, and communication strategies to foster respectful, sensitive, and participatory parenting practices.
- Develop awareness campaigns, shared responsibility mechanisms, and intersectoral actions to highlight early childhood education’s importance.
- Promote continuous teacher training, pedagogical support, and professional development focused on child well-being, autonomy, exploration, play, and holistic learning.
- Establish transition criteria, pedagogical guidelines, and inter-institutional coordination mechanisms to ensure continuity of learning experiences for children.
- Design, adapt, and implement transversal curriculum content that integrates health, play, emotions, and coexistence, actively engaging families and communities in creating healthy, safe, and affectionate habits and environments.
