Deputy Luis Cuello has announced plans to appeal to the Constitutional Court against the government's decision to eliminate the 'I Choose My PC' program, arguing that it violates constitutional rights to education and the Child Guarantee Law.

Mario Aguilar, president of the Teachers' Union, warns that potential budget cuts could have severely detrimental effects on children's education, as Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz considers staff layoffs due to a 3.6% reduction in maximum working hours.

"We understand that the transformation of Chilean education will not come from external diagnoses or from policies imposed without classroom participation. It requires rigorous reflection, commitment, and the convergence of classroom teachers, researchers, and academics," expressed organizers of the event, which will take place at the Gabriela Mistral Museum of Education.

From state universities, we are concerned about the threats to various educational projects due to an unjust funding system, yet we emphasize: state universities do not exist to adhere to a neoliberal profitability logic. Their social profitability lies in training professionals, developing research, producing knowledge, contributing to regional development, and serving the country.

If we broaden our perspective on the role of school education, we might realize that we are perhaps pursuing an illusion, based on the assumption that mastering a set of language and mathematics skills can enable performance across diverse knowledge areas and help address the broader educational challenges we face as a country.

Certainly, the measures implemented in 2026 did not cause the PISA 2025 results. The test outcomes present a snapshot prior to the adjustments. However, the data suggest that reducing allocations for infrastructure and tightening the management of supports and substitutes may deepen existing problems and educational inequality.

Chile ranked 37th out of 90 in reading, 43rd out of 91 in science, and 61st out of 90 in mathematics. These three figures have circulated widely this week and are the most fragile within the report. The differences in mathematics and science between Chile and Uruguay are two and three points, respectively, comfortably within the margin of error; claiming one leads over the other amounts to interpreting noise.

The Teacher Unity Movement (MUD) has issued a public statement following a National Extraordinary Assembly that addressed the serious challenges faced by educational communities in light of a new privatization threat to public education.

On September 6, educators and union leaders began a three-day march to Valparaíso, rallying to save Chilean education from severe budget cuts and commercialization threats.

With just 48 hours left before the march to Valparaíso organized by the Chilean Teachers' Association, the Pro Association for Employees of the National Board of Kindergarten Schools (Aprojunji) announced its support for the demonstration, bringing the total number of participating unions to eight.