translated from Spanish: “The tour of disinformation”: Cubillos shall explain in Comptrollership platas public use to promote “Fair admission”

Up to Comptroller became opposition deputies to request a statement of the supervisory body with respect to the use of public funds by the Minister of education, Marcela Cubillos, in the controversial summer tour to promote his “Admission just” project.
The parliamentarians Juan Santana (PS), Camila Vallejo (PC) and Gonzalo Winter (MA) accused the Minister financed with public resources a “smear campaign” of the current school admission system, so you claim that you set up “a serious violation to the” principle of legitimacy and legality and to the regulation of advertising bills costs”. However, the Minister dismissed this onslaught of opposition, noting that “for a sector of the left seems to be illegal that one rule, to do our work, we are in regions, that we listen to the parents, you want improve the” laws inherited, that want to talk to those who are the users of the systems created in these laws”.
Cubillos said that “when we are accused of doing our work, living in regions, to listen to families, I think that it is an accusation that it makes no more sense, is first that it is accusing someone for doing their job”.
The Government has contemplated entering this week the two projects in which decided to divide the controversial initiative as part of the strategy to achieve the adoption of this theme. And, for that reason, the Secretary of State will attend Monday the Senate’s Education Committee.
During the summer, the Minister Cubillos tour toured 10 regions and 26 communes of the country submitting the draft law of “Admissions fair”, which seeks to modify the system of school admissions (SAE) approved during the Government of former President Michelle Bachelet.
“For the Minister to go to regions, no problem, that the Minister report to the citizenship, no problem. But the problem is that the Minister did the opposite. Each person who listened to the Minister on his tour is more confused than it was before with respect to school admission system. “For example, that the Minister says that all students are without registration because of the school admission system is a chamullo”, explained the separatist Deputy Gonzalo Winter.
For his part, the Deputy Santana said that “from the income of the project called fair admission, [la ministra Cubillos] has visited more than 25 communes and 10 regions making use of public resources to misinform and lie about the current intake system.” We have no problems with that trip and meet with parents, but yes, we find it unacceptable is defames a law of the Republic which is not yet in force”.
Meanwhile, Deputy Camila Vallejo (PC) added that “for us it is very important to make this query to Comptrollership, because all the authorities of our country have to adhere to the principles of legitimacy and legality. About especially when being used public resources to perform their functions. The function of the Minister of education, by the way, is travel around our country and get together with the actors of the educational system, and these meetings and talks are not on the basis of denostaciones or lies about a law that is in force, still not It has been implemented throughout the country”.
“It must elucidate if public resources are wasted by omitting actions and administrative responsibilities which has the Ministry of education to comply with the registration 100% of all the students of our country. The same Minister has pointed out that there are 18 thousand students who are without registration, which could not happen because it is the responsibility of the Ministry of education and the regional guarantee enrolment and quotas to all parents and guardians of our country”, Vallejo said.
In that sense, Winter recalled other data delivered by Cubillos deserving doubts: “the Minister say that 51% are satisfied within the nominations is not true, own Ministry figures say that this figure reaches about 59%. Therefore if the Minister will base a draft law which transforms a system that has not applied to the half of the country in a popular outcry, the country deserves to know how much money we are spending”.
In these conditions, according to Winter, “it is best that the Comptroller to speak and tell you all how Chileans are occupying public resources to inform or misinform”.

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