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:

Duties

See also: Public domain

Is duty of Secretariat of Public Education (Mexico) digitize, preserve and make them available and accessible public domain works for every citizen. Mexico has millions of public domain works (books, pictures, music and films) that belongs to the public domain and since there is not restrictions or copyright on them and all these works can be accessed, copied and enjoyed by its citizen in order to accomplish human right of access to science and culture make more egalitarian access to culture in every country no matter the social status of the cirizens.[2][3]

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