Chilean Education System

Abstract

The study is a qualitative descriptive analysis of ethnographic design from the historical and political events of the Chilean educational system, using the instrument's bibliographic card and the technique of observation and documentary review. It addresses the political and economic decisions of its government that affected the student, his or her family and society in general. The State acts as an administrator of resources aligning itself with its ideal objectives, for which it proposes programs, contents and forms of evaluation. The system is developed with vouchers and co-payments according to efficiency criteria. The students demonstrated with national protests against the municipalization and social segregation that brought about the classification between municipal schools, subsidized private schools and paid private establishments in addition to the type of evaluation executed by SIMCE added to the socioeconomic, geographic and capacity inequalities despite the laws of equity. Although there is a guarantee of access to school learning and its results are true achievements at the Latin American level.