📋 Tender Overview
After being analyzed by the Education Commission, his similar to the Treasury studied the rules of his competence deriving it to the plenary.
After analyzing the 17 indications presented, it was sent to Sala the project that strengthens educational management and improves the standards on administration and installation of the public education system. The instance was pronounced on the rules of its competence in two sessions, after it was focused on the content of the text initiated into a message, which also introduced modifications. The second process proposal seeks to strengthen the Directorate of Public Education and specify the governing role of the Ministry of Education, creating instances and mechanisms that favor intersectoral coordination. It also intends to deliver tools that make the administrative and financial management of local public education services (SLEP) more flexible to ensure the total and adequate transfer of the educational service. Concretely, the initiative tries to respond to a series of complexities that has involved the installation of SLEP in different parts of the country. In this way, it is mentioned the lack of availability of resources for the execution of infrastructure, maintenance or conservation works; slowness and rigidity in administrative procedures, especially those of removal due to serious breaches to officials to officials; inefficient or late controls of the processes and instruments of the system; and lack of preventive mechanisms or in advance of critical situations; among others. Among the objectives of the proposal are: 1. Strengthen the Directorate of Public Education, granting new powers for the coordination and strategic conduct of the Public Education System. 2. specify the governing role of the Ministry of Education, improving its accompaniment mechanisms to the processes of implementation of the Public Education System, through the Undersecretariat of Education and Undersecretariat of Pluvular Education, thus those that allow their coordination with other systems and services that collaborate with its operation. 3. Create instances and mechanisms that favor intersectoral coordination, in addition to promoting the collaboration of the services of the educational sector with the effective fulfillment of objectives of the public education system. 4. Deliver tools that make the administrative and financial management of local services more flexible, improving the delivery of pedagogical technical support to educational establishments and facilitating their relationship with educational communities. 5. Ensure the total and adequate transfer of the educational service, functionally adjusting the processes involved and creating tools for the sanitation of the municipal administration, prior to transfer. Debate when reviewing the indications presented by the Executive, Senator Ximena Rincon (President) and her peers Javier Macaya, Jose Miguel Insulza, Ricardo Lagos and Rodrigo Galilea discussed various topics including the purpose of local offices and the positions associated with the installation of the local service. They also studied in extensive, related to the formation of the interministerial committee emphasizing the need to avoid the subrogation of state secretaries and detailing the cases in which it could apply. On the occasion, the Commission showed a series of practical examples of committees that are usually made up of subrogating authorities questioning the resolutive capacity. Another issue that was present was the appointment of the provisional administrator by the Superintendence of Education against serious infractions referring to the transition plan. In turn, the restitution of pension and labor debts by local services to municipalities and municipal corporations generating a simplified system was settled. Thus, the Ministry will determine the amount of the default, the Budget Directorate (Dipres) will deliver the resources and the Undersecretariat of Regional Development (Subdere) will send them to the Municipal Common Fund. After the particular approval, Senator Rincon commented that this proposal allows to solve some problems that the implementation of local services has presented (...) we believe that this project is not enough because the challenge is that public education is a space that responds to the real needs of children. We have known reports that tell us that the reform implemented has not achieved its objectives, so we believe that a complete self -criticism must be made to the system, he emphasized. For his part, the Minister of Education, Nicolas Cataldo thanked the Education and Finance Commissions for the practically unanimous support, of the indications. This speaks of an agreement that we hope is reflected in the room now, ideally next week. Now this project and its urgency is also important because the PROtocol that was signed, indicates that the budget execution was activated once this project is dispatched, he observed.
