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Francisco González Mena graduated with a degree in natural sciences from the Escuela Normal Superior (ENS) in the Mexican state of Puebla. He also completed a diploma course on the US political system at the Future Leaders Institute in Washington D.C.

He was General Secretary of Tlaxcala Branch 31 from February 2004 to March 2010. He has served as a representative of the SNTE National Executive Committee at various union branches across the country, giving him a broad understanding of education workers’ needs.

He is currently coordinator of the National Negotiating Committee of the SNTE and, since July 2023, he has been a National Executive Committee representative at SNTE Branch 11 in Mexico City, which brings together education support personnel.

Written by Francisco González Mena

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   Standards and working conditions 15 May 2026

   Education support personnel in public education in Mexico

   Francisco González Mena

   Mexico is one of the twenty-seven countries that form part of Education International in North America and the Caribbean. Mexico’s national union of education workers, the SNTE, is one of the world’s largest, with a total membership of 1.6 million active workers and 1 million retired workers. Of the former,...

   Education support personnel in public education in Mexico