translated from Spanish: Hoffmann and Bellolio call on the Government to integrate co-pay subsidy in private schools subsidized to the “Middle Class Plan”

The members of the UDI and members of the Committee on Education, María José Hoffmann and Jaime Bellolio, reiterated the call to the Government to strengthen the “Middle Class Plan” as soon as possible, incorporating a subsidy to the co-payment in the subsidized private schools, considering that many parents and guardians have not been able to cancel the monthly payments of the establishments in time because they are unemployed or with a low income because of the coronavirus.” We need to avoid the full consequences of this pandemic, and one of them is that students do not see their studies at risk because their parents cannot afford school monthly payments. That is why we think it is so necessary that a co-pay subsidy should also be given within the middle class aid so that parents have to pay a much smaller amount, thus avoiding further dropout at the school level,” both Members argued, who estimated that nearly 700,000 pupils would benefit from the measure, resulting in around 400,000 middle-class families in the country. In this vein, the parliamentarians who insisted that it is the State that has to prevent the high cessation and lack of income of the demise of the deeds from being forced to withdraw the pupils, both because of the harm they would cause to their schooling, as well as the negative effects that could be generated on the faculty , which have mostly been kept working through the virtual class system.” This is the minute where the state has to exercise all its protection in middle-class families. We need to ensure that no economic crisis, however serious, disrupts the training of students and the educational projects of each school. We know that faculty are making an extraordinary effort to maintain the same pace and quality of classes, but unfortunately if families have to withdraw students because they do not have the resources to pay for that co-payment, no educational project can be maintained over time, directly affecting students and their families,” UDI Members said. In addition, Hoffmann and Bellolio cautioned that state aid in these terms should be implemented as soon as possible, considering that the admission process for the 2021 school year will soon begin.” The law says that during the year you can’t take any students out for not paying. The problem, then, translates into the coming year, taking into account that it is a few months away to start the selection process, which is done centrally. So it is now that the State has to act with concrete and specific help for middle-class families and those diverse educational projects that the subsidized private schools deliver,” the members insisted.

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