Faced with "the absence of a pedagogic foundation" and the "conditions of corruption" in which the National Assessment of Academic Achievement in Schools (ENLACE) is administered, the teachers of the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers (CNTE) demanded that the Secretary of Government Affairs (SEGOB) declare them to be null and void.
In a document addressed to the Under-Secretary of Government Affairs, Luis Enrique Miranda Nava, the dissident teachers emphasized that for the fourth consecutive year "the distribution and prior sale of tests has been reported". The document added that faced with
"convincing evidence that the ENLACE was sold and [thus test items were] known prior to its official administration, we demand its cancellation and punishment for those responsible for this corruption".After hundreds of teachers in Michoacán and Oaxaca held a demonstration in Mexico City's Zócalo [main plaza], a committee of teachers entered [the SEGOB's offices] to deliver their formal complaint regarding administration of ENLACE to about 16 million elementary and middle school students across the country. The CNTE emphasized that
"to the strong pedagogical challenge that we have made to these instruments as a central theme of education policies in our country, we again add the corruption that takes place with its administration."After the formal delivery of the document, as well as a package with copies of the ENLACE, administered on June 4-5 in the elementary schools, and whose content was released to the media on June 2, they also attached photographs that show parents of students comparing the tests distributed in the schools with those that were [illegally] sold. Teachers attending the meeting stated that the federal authority
"expected that we would present more evidence, but the answer was clear: that is the task of the Secretariat of Public Education [SEP], since it is this agency that is responsible for investigating."In the letter sent to Miranda Nava, the CNTE stated that the ENLACE test is used to determine aspects such as the economic stimulus that an individual teacher will be able to receive, depending on the scores that their students achieve on the standardized test, but also additional resources that could be made to a school deemed 'worthy' by [its students] getting good test results.
[ENLACE student test scores] also determine 50 percent of the points needed for teachers in the Professional Teaching Career program to achieve better pay, but above all, the teachers recalled that
"[ENLACE test] results categorize students, groups and schools by academic ranking".Spanish original