La Política de Financiamiento de la Educación Básica en Chile (1980 -2008): Consecuencias y Disyuntivas

The article analyzes the central elements of the political funding of basic education Chilean driven from the neo-liberal reform of 1980 that changed the system of funding by one of subsidy demand. The text reviews the status of the system, the main results after nearly three decades of implementation and finding solutions to the problems of increasing social segmentation and the intergenerational reproduction of social differences, attributed by some to market failures and otherwise mainly to technical problems of fixing the value of the grant. The paper analyzes projections of the problem, that despite the amendments, it believes fails to merge two irreducible underlying logic: the State of Subsidiary currently in force, strong and dominant and the State of solidarity that fails to make progress. This debate will be present in a near horizon and comprise an important turning point in deciding how to solve the problems it has generated.