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When the student teachers get permanent jobs in their own classrooms, “they hit the ground running,” he said, citing grant-funded training and mentorship.

As the march makes its way through the rain down Mexico City’s Reforma Avenue, groups of young indigenous student teachers chant defiantly, the rage evident in their voices.

The strike was voted on by members of United Auto Workers Local 4811, which represents about 48,000 graduate student teacher assistants, tutors, researchers and other academic workers.

The school’s teaching staff is predominantly young and female, partly because the school frequently hosts student teachers, who often go on to accept jobs at the campus.

These days, international mentors are working online with the group's student teachers to slowly reduce reliance on overseas help.