Secretariat of Public Education (Mexico)

Mexico
Secretariat of Public Education
Secretaría de Educación Publica

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Agency overview
Jurisdiction Mexico
Agency executive
Website http://www.sep.gob.mx/
Headquarters of the Secretariat of Public Education

The Mexican Secretariat of Public Education (in Spanish Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP) is a federal government authority with Cabinet representation and responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of national educational policy and school standards in Mexico. The Secretariat has several buildings distributed all over the country but its main offices, initially confined to the Old Dominican Convent of the Holy Incarnation in the oldest borough of Mexico City, have extended to the House of the Marqués de Villamayor, (also known as the Casa de los adelantados de Nueva Galicia, built in 1530), the Old House of don Cristóbal de Oñate, a three-times Governor and General Captain of New Galicia (also built in 1530) and the Old Royal Customs House (built in 1730-31). Some of the buildings were decorated with mural paintings by Diego Rivera and other notable exponents of the Mexican muralist movement of the 20th century David Alfaro Siqueiros, Raul Anguiano, Manuel Felguerez.[1]

The Secretariat has the following responsibilities:

List of secretaries

Sources

  1. "Historia de la SEP". Secretaría de Educación Pública. Retrieved 2008-04-14.

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External links

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