Overview
- Education Minister José Antonio Chang said the Presidency will present the draft publicly that will recover expulsions, with the document due to be shown by the President on Thursday and opened for comment.
- The ministry says the rule will take effect this year but the specific criteria for what counts as a serious offense are still being written and will appear in the prepublished text.
- The proposal will include a progressive sanctions scale that ranges from verbal and written warnings to suspension of enrollment or activities and expulsion for the most serious cases.
- The prepublication stage will accept observations for between five and ten days so schools, families and other stakeholders can submit input before the final rule is issued and implemented.
- At the same time Minedu announced El Niño contingency steps that include earlier school closures in high‑risk areas, repairs to about 18,000 school sites and the use of 1,500 prefabricated classrooms, actions that could change when and where students attend class.