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Mexico 2026‑27 school calendar and supplies full‑time schools funding
On 15 July 2026 the The Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) confirmed that the 2026‑27 national academic calendar: 185 instructional days calendar will run from 31 August 2026 to 9 July 2027, with providing 185 instructional days, a one‑week teacher recess in August, no teacher workshops, and an earlier January return. Winter winter break runs 21 (21 December 2026 – 6 January 2027; 2027), Holy Week 29 (29 March – 9 April 2027; 2027) and summer vacation begins starting 10 July 2027. State calendars, such as Sinaloa’s, follow the national framework, finishing three days earlier to avoid heat Sinaloa’s and adding a special awareness day on 7 September 2026. SEP’s basic‑education director Sergio Enrique Resendiz Flores Yucatán’s, mirror this framework; Yucatán also announced a virtual phase distribution of the Consejo Técnico Escolar (CTE) uniforms, supplies and backpacks for Tlaxcala, with more than 12 300 teachers taking part online 24‑28 August 2026 after earlier in‑person meetings. the new school year. SEP issued a recommended list of minimum school supplies for the cycle, stressing supplies, emphasizing free textbooks, reusable items and low‑cost materials. Campeche will distribute free uniforms and hand out over more than 1 500 laptops to high‑school, university and some secondary students, with supplies arriving within two weeks of classes starting and laptops in early September. The Beca Rita Cetina scholarship provides a one‑time grant of 2 500 pesos per primary‑school child; continues, with cards have been issued to 119 549 students across primary, secondary and university levels nationwide, with August payouts scheduled by surname‑letter order after the final card distribution on 31 July. These measures complement a broader order. On 28 July 2026, federal agenda that includes digital health records deputy Alejandro Alejandro Domínguez presented a Point of Agreement to create a dedicated budget line for the Full‑time Schools program (PETC) in the 2027 federal budget. The proposal seeks to restore the extended school day with meals in public primary schools, prioritising indigenous, rural and highly marginalised communities. PETC, created in 2007, once operated in more than 10 25 000 schools serving about 3.6 million pupils students; its funding was reduced from 2018, the budget line disappeared in 2021, and 2022 rules removed the extended‑day and meal components. Together, the federal calendar, state implementations, supply distributions, scholarship payments and the legislative push to fund full‑time schools aim to provide a clear academic schedule for millions of Mexican students, improve learning outcomes, reduce dropout rates and support broader digital‑health and infrastructure upgrades for roughly 73 000 schools.