translated from Spanish: Senator Provoste urges Government to put urgent urgency to project that expands free for Technical Education

The senator of the Christian Democracy, Yasna Provoste, urged the Government to advance the initiative that establishes the socioeconomic status of the students to which they must grant them free of charge in the insti access to institutional funding for the free year 2019, in accordance with Title V of the Higher Education Act.
In this regard, the MP called on the Government to “not let the project sleep.”
“At the beginning of July the bill that expands the free of hand was dispatched from the Senate Finance Committee and was ready for a vote in Sala. This after its approval in the Education Commission at the insistence of the senators themselves, and then the government took months to submit the compromised indications that would allow the proposed benefit to be extended to career students university techniques of the new state CFTs,” he said.
In addition, Provoste recalled that the project presented by the Government, which seemed like a good announcement, inexplicably left out these students. And never on the committee could the government explain in a good way this absurd and arbitrary exclusion.
Similarly, the legislator detailed that “to give the project viability, the government undertook to present an indication that corrected this arbitrariness. But the indication came with a new trap. It did not include CFT students; and included college technical career students and non-academic career students. The trap: they would begin to receive the benefit three years after the law passed.”
Provoste commented that the Education committee approved the indication “which eliminated the trap. And the right of course I support the government’s proposal, but the treasury committee reaffirmed what was resolved in education,” therefore the fine print was removed.
“Since then the government apparently decided to let the project sleep. We have repeatedly tried to place it on the voting table in the room but the urgencies placed by the government to other initiatives delay her vote again and again,” the member of the Senate Education Committee said.

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