As of this week, the 2023 school year will begin at the national level and, although this Monday several districts will begin the classesthese will not start uniformly in all provinces.
This is because each province has autonomy to determine how to execute the school calendar; What does have to be guaranteed is that all schools provide this year a minimum of 190 days of classes.
This way, Today, February 27, they will start the classes the City of Buenos Aires, the provinces of Chubut, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Mendoza, Río Negro, Salta, San Luis, and Santa Cruz. On February 28 they will begin in the province of Corrientes.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, March 1, the date on which the national government had proposed that all schools begin the school year, the classes in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Jujuy, La Pampa, Misiones, Neuquén, San Juan, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego and Tucumán.
The last to return to the classroom will be the students from the province of La Rioja, who will start the school year next Thursday, March 2. In this way, the 2023 school year would end between December 14 and 26.
It should be remembered that, since last year, the national government agreed with several provinces to implement one more hour of classmeasure that was accepted by Chaco, Río Negro, Tucumán, Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz, Catamarca, Entre Ríos, Salta, Santa Fe, Formosa, Jujuy, Santiago del Estero, Corrientes, San Juan, Mendoza and Córdoba.
Additionally, this year women’s football will be incorporated into the classes Physical Education in schools across the country after an agreement that was signed between the Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk, and the head of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia.
teachers strike
Within the framework of the start of a new school yearteachers from the City of Buenos Aires gathered in Ademys will carry out a strike this Monday to demand a salary increase above inflation.
The measure of force will be for 24 hours and includes a day of mobilizations towards the City Government Headquarters. In other provinces there will also be protests over wages this week, among them, in Córdoba, Santa Cruz and Río Negro.