Surely it is correct that before approving a law, legislators spend long days of multiple hours debating the content of the texts.
After all, these rules will become provisions that citizens must respect and the State must enforce...
or not?
Judging by some education articles of the omnibus law and the history of recent Argentina, one could deduce that… no.
That perhaps it is more likely that the norm will be debated, approved, but then nothing will happen.
Or
it moves very, very slowly
.
This is what can happen with article 280 of that law, which refers to
the transparency of educational information
and establishes that national and provincial authorities must regulate
“in the shortest possible time
, the operation of SINIDE, with the objective of
obtaining complete, updated and digital information
about the national educational system (…) In turn, the corresponding authority
will regulate the school ID and guarantee its implementation.
”
For those who are not aware, the SINIDE (Comprehensive Educational Digital Information System) is nothing more than
a digital platform
in which schools and Ministries of Education in the country
should upload, in real time, the most relevant data from the classrooms.
, in order to have the best information and be able to
project and make decisions more efficiently
.
SINIDE.
Teacher training for the use of the tool in Salta.
Having this information is useful for many things, but one of the most important is the possibility of
generating early alerts
to detect when a student is stopping going to school, which can
anticipate and reduce school dropouts
.
By a resolution from 2014 (10 years ago),
this platform should already be operating throughout the country
.
But since it was moving slower than a tortoise, four years later legislators passed a law to speed it up.
It is the “school ID” thing, a 2018 rule that required SINIDE to be implemented.
As is clear in the omnibus project, this
was not even regulated
yet .
In November 2022, the government of Alberto Fernández made a presentation about the progress they were making with this platform, but it still needs to be completed in many provinces.
We present the Comprehensive Digital Educational Information System (SInIDE) to strengthen the trajectory of students from public and private schools at all three levels 🏫
It is a transcendental step that also helps teachers with their immense daily work.
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— Alberto Fernández (@alferdez) November 9, 2022
Why is SINIDE advancing so slowly?
“There are multiple technical, budgetary,
but fundamentally political
reasons,” expert Samanta Bonelli, who investigates the issue,
told
Clarín .
Other specialists point out that some provinces, in search of more resources,
report more enrollment or teachers than they actually have
.
Will SINIDE be able to advance if the omnibus law is passed?
We will have the 2014 resolution, the 2018 school ID law and the 2024 omnibus law. But
also the provincial governments themselves
, beyond the occasional change.
Perhaps it is not just a law that is needed for SINIDE to start definitively and educational data for the entire country to finally be within reach.
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