The Financing System of Compulsory Education in Chile: current situation and challenges

The work shows that Chile is an atypical case in terms of public financing of compulsory education, given that for more than four decades a financing system based on the effective demand of students to schools was implemented through ‘vouchers’, which in addition to being controversial and encouragi...

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Autores: Donoso Díaz, Sebastián, Benavides-Moreno, Nibaldo
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositório:FINEDUCA - Revista de Financiamento da Educação
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/132790
Acesso em linha:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/fineduca/article/view/132790
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Chile
Financiamiento de la Educación
Educación Obligatoria
Equidad y Calidad
Vouchers
Financing of Education
Compulsory Education
Equity and Quality
Financiamento da Educação
Educação Obrigatória
Equidade e Qualidade
Descrição
Resumo:The work shows that Chile is an atypical case in terms of public financing of compulsory education, given that for more than four decades a financing system based on the effective demand of students to schools was implemented through ‘vouchers’, which in addition to being controversial and encouraging privatization, have added more negative than positive effects on the quality of teaching for most of its students. However, we have taken too long to introduce substantive changes to the model in favor of equity, which have led to a severe and massive crisis in the quality of education, which currently – in our opinion – requires profound transformations in its instruments to avoid the system collapsing. The article presents the Chilean sociopolitical context and financing policies, then it exposes the current education financing model and its main components, ending with asymmetries challenges of the financing model.