Telesecundarias en Mexico

Telesecundaria was born on the need to service graduates of elementary education in rural areas that were unable to continue their studies for lack of secondary schools in their areas.

In 1968 Telesecundaria started at 304 classrooms and a teacher for each one of these in the states of Veracruz, Morelos, Estado de México, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Oaxaca and the Federal District.

The initial number of students was 6,549.

Originally, Telesecundaria transmitted black-and-white live lessons through public television channels

Nowadays, the lessons have been pre-recorded to ensure higher quality and the image is in color and transmitted via satellite

By the end of 1993, Telesecundaria was broadcasting to over 9,000 schools in Mexico and serving almost 600,000 students through satellite Morelos II

 In 1994, Edusat was launched, making use of more powerful and advanced satellite (Solidaridad 1) capable of transmitting 24 hours a day and covering more areas

Each facility has at least one television set, a satellite dish, a set-top box (cable box) and a low noise amplifier.

Telesecundaria broadcasts more than 4,000 television programs on channel 11 of the six channels of Edusat (Sistema de Televisión Educativa, "Educational Television System") of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP, Secretaría de Educación Pública) of Mexico

Telesecundaria broadcasts to more than 16,000 rural facilities serving more than one million students nationwide. 

The programs are transmitted daily between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. (Mexico City time) and re-transmitted between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays programs pertaining high school education are transmitted.