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The Mexican Secretariat of Public Education (
in Spanish ''Secretaría de Educación Pública'', ''SEP'') is a federal government authority with
cabinet representation and the responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of national educational policy and school standards in Mexico. Its
headquarters has several buildings distributed throughout 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-time governor and general captain of New Galicia (also built in 1530), and the Old Royal Customs House (built in 1730–1731). Some of the buildings were decorated with
mural
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage.
Word mural in art
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paintings by
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...
and other notable exponents of the Mexican muralist movement of the twentieth century,
David Alfaro Siqueiros,
Raul Anguiano, and
Manuel Felguerez.
Secretariat functions
* Creation and maintenance of state public schools in
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer ...
, excluding those that are dependents of other dependencies
* Ensuring all requirements related to preschool, primary, secondary, technical, and normal education (i.e., teacher education) as established by the
Constitution of Mexico
The Constitution of Mexico, formally the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States ( es, Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the current constitution of Mexico. It was drafted in Santiago de Querétaro, in th ...
are observed and completed, and to prescribe the norms to which the incorporation of particular schools in the national educational system should adjust
* Exercising supervision and vigilance that proceeds in the seminaries that impart education in the Republic, pursuant to Article 3 of the Constitution
* To systematically organize, administer and enrich the general or specialized libraries that are sustained by the Secretariat or that form part of its dependencies
* To promote the creation of institutes of scientific and technical research and the establishment of laboratories,
observatories
An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geophysical, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed. His ...
,
planetariums, and also centers that are required for the development of primary, secondary, moral, technical, and superior education; to orient, in coordination with the appropriate dependencies of the federal government and with the public and private entities, the development of scientific and technological research
* To confer scholarships so that students of Mexican nationality can do research or complete foreign study programs
* To re-validate studies and titles, and to concede authorization for the exercise of the capacities that they accredit
* To formulate the catalog of national historic patrimony
* To organize, sustain, and administer historic, archaeological and artistic museums, painting galleries and art galleries, to the effect of preserving the integrity, the maintenance, and the conservation of historic and artistic treasures of the cultural patrimony of the country
* To conserve, protect, and maintain archaeological, historical, and artistic monuments that conform the cultural patrimony of the nation, attending the legal dispositions in these matters
* To orient the artistic, cultural, recreational, and sport-related activities that are realized by the federal public sector
* To maintain a national data base of the works protected by
copyright
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and
trademark
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s through disconcerted institutes
* To regulate
sports
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, the people involved, and the application of their rules in the nation
List of secretaries
Sources
See also
* (ILCE)
External links
Official Secretariat of Public Education websiteOfficial site of the President's Cabinet
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Education
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ...
Education in Mexico
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
Buildings and structures in Mexico City
Government agencies established in 1921
1921 establishments in Mexico
Historic center of Mexico City
Neoclassical architecture in Mexico
Education
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ...