Reformas educacionales de michelle bachelet biography

On March 11th 2014, Michelle Bachelet assumed the presidency of Chile for a second term in her political life. An educational focus framed much of the electoral debate that was central to her campaign for re-election, as it figures prominently in her “three in-depth reforms,” alongside taxation and constitutional reforms. The 2006 and 2011 Chilean student protests played a crucial role bringing education to the forefront of the Chilean political debates.

The Chilean education system is one of the most commodified and liberalised in the world.

Under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), Chile became the laboratory for the implementation of the market-based reforms that remain in place to this day. The main feature of these reforms is the voucher system, which transfers State resources to schools, in accordance with demand, and irrespective of whether or not schools are public or private.

The reforms seek to provide families with the complete freedom to choos