translated from Spanish: Mineduc forecasts that implementation of the SAE this year will “work as appropriate”

This morning the Ministry of Education said that steps have been taken to make the implementation of the School Admission System (SAE) “optimal”, following criticism that pointed to misinformation by the portfolio. As reported by Emol, the undersecretary of education, Raúl Figueroa stated that there is “absolute certainty that, as we did last year, this year the implementation of the system will work accordingly”. “The platform will be available to the proxy and that there they will be able to carry out the application to the various educational establishments,” the authority said. In addition, he recalled that this system had already been implemented last year in all regions of the country except for the Metropolitan. “We have the experience of properly implementing this system. The best implementation of the system was precisely the responsibility of this administration. And with the same rigor, following the same procedures and with the same objectives, we will do it this year,” he stressed. In the same vein, the Minister of Education, Marcela Cubillos, stated that “sometimes it is believed that what has not happened in Santiago has not happened in the country. This school admission system was implemented last year in all regions of Chile and we had to implement it ourselves and the families applied, had the information and the platform worked perfectly”. The Secretary of Government also referred to Congress’ rejection of the amendments that the Executive attempted to make to the system. “It does not prevent the law, as it stands and as it was passed in the previous government, from having to be implemented. We did it last year and there’s a full warranty on that,” he said.” This year FAEP brings significant improvements in reducing bureaucracy in the delivery of resources, to enable them to reach public education more effectively, and to this day we have 100% of the plans approved,” she said. Mineduc reported that 100% of the plans are approved, which include actions to improve the quality of public education. They ensure that in total 1,227,159 students benefited in 5,042 establishments.

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