Mexico City • Secretary of Education, Emilio Chuayffet, claimed that the ENLACE [student achievement] test can disappear, and it will be up to the National Institute for Educational Evaluation (INEE) to decide on new assessment tools for the National Education System.
"It could (disappear). Eventually it will be whatever the new independent constitutional body, made up of five splendid educators, tells us it will be. They are going to dictate what the standards are for evaluation not only of our students and teachers, but of the [education] system as a whole," he said.Chuayffet clarified that at present, with the current education reform, the test can undergo immediate changes.
Regarding the complaint about sale of this examination, he assured that complaints will be brought before the Public Ministry [investigative police and prosecutors] and the Public Function [Secretariat of Civil Service for oversight of government employees] to punish those responsible.
"I am not the authority to investigate criminal conduct. What is criminal is selling or stealing a test--that's a crime. I'm going to refer (the complaints), but if there is no evidence, we have the dual task of bringing them to the Public Function and the Public Ministry," related Secretary Chuayffet.However, he specified that the Secretariat of Public Education currently "has neither evidence of the inquiries that we have made, nor that this might have happened", which is why other agencies should investigate.
"I am not defending that there might not have been given the possibility for committing a crime with implementation of the test. I am saying that until now the Secretariat has no evidence," he concluded.... Spanish original