translated from Spanish: Lilí Orell’s profile making noise at the National Institute

For only a few days, Lilí Orell has been the new director of the National Institute, the second woman to hold this position since 1990. Former seremi of Education in the government of Piñera I and former head of cabinet of the Ministry of Social Development, assumes at a complex moment and there are already several doubts, within the INm about the role it will play.
Orell will be at the head of the National Institute until February 28, 2020, while defining the final name via High Public Management. Those who have worked with her explained that she is not a specialist in the educational field and that for the same reason, her appointment would point more than anything to try to “put order” in the institute.
“She specializes in restructuring teams, dividing them, cutting them,” a former Orell official acknowledged.  For example, those who have worked nearby recalled that their arrival at the Seremi of Education in 2010 was marked by a series of layoffs, which in the first two months only notified 120 people of their disengagement “via mail” and without advancement.
Precisely, this trait of the Orell style would be the main fear that there are these days among teachers and administrative officials of the National Institute, since one of the objectives of the new director would be to get the workers who have most supported the Students.
Inside the IN they explained that Orell’s appointment “has not brought us peace of mind” and what they fear is that from December and in the following months, disengagements will begin.
Orell arrives at the IN accompanied by a team that has been with her for years: Carmen Gloria Sandoval will hold the position of coordinator of School Coexistence, María Eliana Lagos will be in the area of Pedagogical Management, together with Patricia Nilo and María Galdámez, will take over the position of Psychosocial coordinator.
The new director of the IN has no formal political militancy, but from Chile Vamos they classified it as a figure “close to the UDI”.
His name was already made a noise in 2014, after he was linked to the Confederation of Fathers and Agents of Subsidized Private Schools of Chile, an instance that pressured the educational reform that at that moment was being promoted by the government of Michelle Bachelet.
A note published by El Mostrador highlighted her participation in a march with the organization of parents and proxys, where the former seremi appears next to a sign that reads: “Again the great Alamedas will open where (sic) Free Education passes” and next to it,  the then uditan president, Ernesto Silva, the Member of the Grenmialist, Javier Macaya, and the still Senator, Hernán Larraín, posed smiling.
Orell’s explanation at the time was that “I just went to the march and someone passed the sign, and it landed like anything else. But I don’t work for anyone.”

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