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Show your support to Chile Students in their struggle for free education |
Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and members of the public have come together to demand free, quality education for all in Chile. The ongoing protests began in May 2011, demanding free public education and an end to profit in both secondary and higher education.
Chile has seen education increasingly used as a commodity to be bargained for. Over the last thirty years enrolment in city schools has fallen from 75% to 42%, and in the last 15 years 707 municipal schools have closed, and 2540 private schools (subsidized by the state) opened. The resulting competition for resources means that access to the best quality education is now restricted to those who can afford it; the Chilean education system has become one of the key sources of the growing inequality between rich and poor – of which Chile now has the largest in the region.
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