The educational gap in marginalized communities of Mexico and the United States has become, in 2025, an unforgiving thermometer of democratic health and regional economic prospects. This is not only about classrooms: it is about social mobility, productivity, and binational cohesion. On both sides of the Rio Grande, governments face a double-edged sword: tangible progress in 2024 and political choices that, this year, may either accelerate—or derail—that momentum. In Mexico
