Secretaría de Educación Pública

The Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP - The Secretariat of Public Education, or 'Department of Public Education') is a Mexican federal government authority with Cabinet representation and responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of national educational policy and school standards in Mexico. Additionally, it has the following responsibilities: 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 Marquess of Villamayor (also known as the Casa de los adelantados de Nueva Galicia, built in 1530), the Old House of don Cristóbal de...