The advisers want to repair thousands of schools throughout the country and call for wiring even rural classrooms for computers and Internet connections. The highly centralized federal bureaucracy that controlled education under the seven-decade rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, will be dismantled, Fox's advisers say. It will be replaced with local school boards and state government agencies. The advisers say they hope to get private businesses and local governments to foot a significant part of the bill. We can't manage all of this.
People have to feel responsible for doing things.
While they praise the goals of Fox's team, education experts question the team's methods. And they say that revamping the highly politicized and underfunded school system may prove more difficult than Fox expects. It's going to be a collective learning curve. Canales points out that Fox's planned education policy will largely depend upon approval by a Congress dominated by the political opposition and on the nearly 1 million members of the PRI-lined national teachers union. In education, changes in policy are very gradual.