📋 Tender Overview
The Senate approved the report of the Joint Commission that resolved the differences between the two branches of Congress. The approval of a zone assignment bonus for education assistants was highlighted. All that remains is for the Chamber of Deputies to rule favorably, so that the project that strengthens educational management and improves regulations on administration and installation of the Public Education System is completely dispatched by Congress. This after the Senate Chamber unanimously approved the report of the Joint Commission that settled the main differences that arose between both branches of Congress during the processing of the initiative. Senators Jose Garcia, Jaime Quintana, Ivan Moreira, Ximena Ordenes and Yasna Provoste valued the unanimous agreement reached on a project considered of utmost importance for the new public education. Likewise, some key aspects of the project were highlighted, such as the reduction of bureaucratic procedures in the operation of the SLEP (Local Public Education Services), the formation of an infrastructure fund for public education, the delivery of an area allocation bonus and the creation of the Council of Education Assistants, among others. PROPOSAL OF THE JOINT The Joint Commission that met this January 26, proposed that in matters of powers of the local public education councils, they may propose to the Executive Director measures aimed at strengthening public education, in accordance with the projects carried out by the Regional Governments and propose to the Executive Director the construction and strengthening of pedagogical-curricular and technical-pedagogical projects based on the link with the universities belonging to the Council of Rectors of the Chilean Universities and with the State Technical Training Centers. Regarding the composition of the technical commission that must be created to collaborate with the adequate delivery of information for the purposes of the transfer of education professionals and education assistants from the municipalities to the Local Services, the norm approved by the Senate was chosen in the sense that they be representatives of the municipality, of the education professionals, of the education assistants, of the preschool education establishments financed via transfer of funds, and of the personnel who work in the Education Administration Departments. Municipal or municipal corporations whose function is directly related to the administration of the educational service, together with the technical teams that the Directorate of Public Education assigns for these purposes, without reference to them being part of unions or organizations as provided by the Chamber of Deputies. Finally, a transitional rule was incorporated to postpone the transfer of the educational service of the communes of Cobquecura, Coelemu, Ninhue, Portezuelo, Quillon, Quirihue, Ranquil, San Nicolas and Treguaco to the Local Public Education Service of Costa Itata, until January 1, 2029.
