Las Políticas Educacionales: Los cambios de la LOCE a LGE y la Nueva Institucionalidad

Abstract

In Chile, the school system has endured various reforms according to the different periods of government
in our history. There are two main laws that have ruled our education system; these are the LOCE and the
LGE. The LOCE was created in 1990 in order to provide a solution to the problem of access to education at
that time. However, nearly two decades later, in 2009, it was replaced by the LGE, a law that seeks to meet
the demands of the society in the 21st century and ensure quality and equity in education. As a result, the
National System of Assurance of the Quality of Education was created, and it is responsible for maintaining
the standards of quality through different agencies such as the Ministry of Education, the National Council of
education, Quality Agencies and the Superintendence of Education, intending to ensure compliance with the
current law, in addition to regulating the duties and rights of the educational community altogether.
Currently, continuous improvement plans have been developed in the school system, and various actions have
been undertaken to comply with the requirements demanded by our society. For this purpose, educational
policies have been created so as to improve the management of governments and meet the current needs of
the knowledge society. Hence, education should give students the necessary tools to integrate and meet the
new challenges that thissociety, in constant change, raises them every day. Education should focus not only
on the transmission of knowledge, but also on teaching values and customs in order to forge a social identity.