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Anderson, Stephen; Uribe, Mario; Valenzuela, Juan Pablo – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
The government of Chile mandated a system-wide reform in public school education in 2017. The reform calls for de-municipalization of the public school sector (345 municipal education departments under mayoral control) and the creation of 70 Servicios Locales de Educación Pública (SLEPs) between 2018 and 2025. The reform represents a largescale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Change, School Districts
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Honey, Ngaire; Carrasco, Alejandro – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
Chile is known for universal school choice policies and a high level of economic segregation. In part, segregation has been linked to selective school admission policies. Chile implemented a centralized school admission system (New School Admission System), where PK-12 schools must accept any applicant, and lottery assignment is used for…
Descriptors: School Choice, Low Income Students, Admission Criteria, Access to Education
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Hofflinger, Alvaro; von Hippel, Paul T. – Sociology of Education, 2020
Debates in education policy draw on different theories about how to raise children's achievement. The "school competition" theory holds that achievement rises when students can choose among competing schools. The "school resources" theory holds that achievement rises with schools' resources per student. The "family…
Descriptors: School Choice, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Mathematics Achievement