Within the framework of the implementation of the “New Secondary School Academic Regime” that eliminates repeating years and that will begin to be applied during the second stage of the year through a transition, the Undersecretariat of Education, the Provincial Directorate of Secondary Education and the Directorate of Private Education Management (DIEGEP) organized a series of work meetings in La Plata with inspectors, regional and district chiefs to begin to fine-tune the agenda and prepare the roadmap for the implementation of the modifications.
From the Buenos Aires educational portfolio they explained that these meetings were already held in Mar del Plata, at the beginning of the week, and that yesterday and Wednesday they took place in the City, in order to convene the closest districts.
“There will be territorial work sessions with the management teams in all districts because this change requires a lot of preparation, communication and transmission work, since the academic regime must be achieved in consensus in the entire educational community, from teachers to families, including students and tutors. There are many aspects to work on,” said Pablo Urquiza, deputy general director of Education and Culture of Buenos Aires.
In that sense, they highlighted that the new regime was approved unanimously “and that is a good first message, in which there is agreement that secondary school must be transformed in several aspects. These are processes that will take place simultaneously from the second part of the year. We are doing it with a lot of listening because that is showing us the best ways of implementation.”
The work sessions were held at the María Auxiliadora School, a Don Bosco Foundation in the City. In addition, the General Council of Culture and Education of the Province of Buenos Aires participated in both meetings, where the “Management Guidelines 2024-2027 and Update of the Academic Regime (RA)” were presented and the main axes of the RA were presented and work was done on the implementation from the territorial perspective through group work.
In the first working group, training and support actions for the implementation of the RA were proposed. Meanwhile, during the course of the afternoon there were work spaces among attendees to plan the implementation of the RA changes and share what was addressed in those two days.
The Buenos Aires Secondary Education directorate highlighted that the new system will be similar to the university scheme: the project to end repetition in secondary schools seeks to establish a model “more similar to the university”, although with “accompanied demand”.
All reforms will be implemented in 2025, but after the winter break of 2024, work will begin in secondary schools with a mix: what exists at the moment and what is coming next year.
The presentation table of the conference was led by the Undersecretary of Education, Pablo Urquiza; the Provincial Director of Secondary Education, Gustavo Galli; the First Vice President of the General Council of Education, Mariana Galarza; and the General Councilor representing teachers, Néstor Carasa.
The opening of yesterday’s event was carried out by the general director of Culture and Education of Buenos Aires, Alberto Sileoni; also, the director of General Inspection, Silvio Maffeo; the deputy director Adriana Juárez; and the deputy director of Institutional Management of the Secondary Level, Karina Prandi.
