Overview
- The national government formally presented the Ley de Libertad Educativa to Congress, starting the legislative debate on a comprehensive rewrite of the education framework.
- The bill repeals Law 26.206 and authorizes homeschooling and other out‑of‑school modalities with required registration and competency checks.
- It creates a voluntary National Secondary Education Exam (ENES) and allows publication of school‑level results from national assessments with privacy safeguards.
- Teachers must be evaluated at least every four years, and the draft sets minimum annual instructional hours for early childhood, primary and secondary levels.
- Financing provisions require regular transparency reporting and tie public university funding to student‑based and performance criteria, while enabling demand‑side instruments such as vouchers.