President Gustavo Petro carried out a new speech on Tuesday to talk about what he calls his government’s achievements. On this occasion he allocated the intervention to talk about education management.
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Petro began his intervention defending against criticism for the graphs presented a week ago in his speech on his health achievements. He assured that the data were correct and that most of the graphs were correct, although he acknowledged that there were some errors in graphing.
Then he went on to talk about what he considers that his achievements in education have been. As in the previous speech, most of its graphs and data presented were compared to the Government of Iván Duque. The first aspect that tried was the result in the knowledge tests, supposedly there was an improvement of 3.6 points compared to the previous government.
“It is the Petro government that makes a difference”, The Colombian president said. He was critical of the results of his predecessor and even said that in 2020 there was no major descent in the knowledge tests, since they were easier for the contingency by the Covid.
Petro said that during his government the results of the knowledge tests have been increased, which is a “Elevation of the general intellect of society, which is the way to be a knowledge society”. Even cataloged this as one of “The great successes of Human Colombia.”
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On this issue, although it is true that there has been improvement in recent times, as the President Petro showed, it is still far in the face of the highest results, reported in 2016, when an average of 264 was reached. Part of the descent of recent years had to do the pandemicwhich implied the passage of classrooms to virtuality, so the rebound reported in recent years is important.
President Petro went on to talk about the differences in results between public and priavada education. At this point he made a brief mention to the case of Valeria Afanador and He came to suggest that this tragedy happened in part because it is a private school where she studied.
Then he resumed the exposure of the data to say that not only the results of the knowledge tests in the National Global, but that the public schools have better increased. The improvement would have been 4.6 points. “We have decreased the gap between public and private schools and this is essential to achieve social equality”the president declared. Above all, he emphasized that during his government an improvement of public education results have been reported “Without deteriorating private education.”
President Gustavo Petro then went on to talk about the results by competencies. Pointed out improvements in mathematics, with an increase of 1.3 points. In this case it is striking that he did come to compare with the Santos Government, when in the first cases on the tests, he focused on differentiating himself from the Government of Iván Duque only.
Then he went on to talk about alleged improvements in critical reading competitions. “We are taking them out of the new ignorance, which is not knowing how to read”he said in this section.
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He then exposed the results of the English tests, where they would also have presented better. At this point he said that he is not against his teaching, but that He reiterated his rejection of the proposal to be adopted as a second language in schools. In this regard, he acknowledged that the figures are not good, but also highlighted an improvement in the figures compared to their predecessors.
The Colombian president then went on to review the average of the knowledge tests at the departmental level. He said that currently only Vichada, Vaupés and Guainía get worse results in front of what he received in the Duke government. “This is called change, our childhood knows more in all the departments of Colombia”Petro declared. Several of these analyzes were made without taking into account the decrease in the numbers of the years after the closure of the classrooms by the Covid.
At this point, the School Food Plan (PAE) and the alleged diversion of children’s feeding resources for corruption acts. Censored these actions. Nevertheless, The complaints from the populations did not take into account that they have warned that the amount of resources provided by the National Government is insufficient to assume the needs of the beneficiaries of the school feeding programs.
Gustavo Petro went on to talk about the increase in the budget in education during his government and took advantage of this point to defend his tax reform. He resumed the thesis that they are only taxing the richest sectors of society.
Finally, the president addressed the results of the knowledge pro, which are the ones that measure the performance of universities. As in the beginning, he compared with the Duke government. At this point, tried to show that the best result of recent yearswhich was in 2020, with 149.2, it was only a product, supposedly, of easier tests for the issue of pandemic.
At a time in a row, Gustavo Petro remained that part of his achievements in higher education was the increase in 190,000 quotas, despite the fact that the representative Catherine Juvinao has stated that government management has not been so much and that this figure has been added the rotation of the existing quotas.
President Petro stood out in this aspect that The public university has had better results than private universities in knowledge pro. In that sense, he maintained this achievement that in his government there has been an increase in the budget for the public university.
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