Mexico Education Chief Says Overhaul Finally Winning Acceptance

The Mexican school-system overhaul that’s created evaluations for teachers has grown in acceptance among them, a step that could improve learning and opportunity for students in the nation’s poorer south, the country’s education minister said.

The government has evaluated 96 percent of teachers in Chiapas, Michoacan and Oaxaca, three states where resistance was strongest, Aurelio Nuno said. President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration is now focused on improving school buildings and revising the curriculum, including a greater emphasis on English, he said.