Overview
- Primary-school students and teachers nationwide have no classes today under an official school asueto, which does not affect other sectors.
- Several jurisdictions extended the pause to secondary schools, including Buenos Aires Province and the City of Buenos Aires.
- Mendoza’s education authority said the asueto there covers initial, primary, secondary and higher education across public and private institutions.
- The commemoration traces to Sarmiento’s death on September 11, 1888, later recognized at a 1943 inter-American conference and formalized by Argentine decree in the mid‑1940s.
- This year’s observance follows President Javier Milei’s veto of a university financing law, sharpening focus on funding for higher education.