A/HRC/35/24/Add.1 role of education. That is critically important, as the humanistic mission of education is being vitiated today. 69. The quality of education depends on its content in terms of the curriculum. An important feature of the education reforms in Chile is that all schools will be required to operate within a national normative framework for quality. The framework will provide for flexibility to adapt and contextualize curricula, with certification at each stage of education. That will allow schools to adapt curricula to the diversity of students’ needs and cultural contexts. 70. The deployment of qualified and trained teachers with professional development is indispensable for quality education. The Special Rapporteur welcomes Act No. 20.903 establishing a system for teachers’ professional development. The Act is expected to bring about improvements in teachers’ development and the value that society attaches to the teaching profession. With a new selection process, teachers are expected to be better accredited and qualified, and to receive higher salaries. 71. However, the Special Rapporteur notes with concern that nearly 20 per cent of all teachers are contractual and community teachers in Chile. 16 That makes the teaching profession precarious and results in its de-professionalization, which should not be allowed. 72. The Special Rapporteur also notes some programmes that have recently been set up, including a postgraduate programme for basic education teachers and an improvement programme for technical-professional secondary school teachers. VIII. Towards a legal framework for financing education 73. The magnitude of the reforms at all levels of education demands huge resources. The Special Rapporteur notes that the implementation of almost all the laws, policies and programmes involved in the education reform requires fresh budgetary support. However, according to information provided by the Ministry of Education, the resources devoted to several key areas in 2015 were meagre, with 6 per cent of the national education budget being allocated to improvements and renovations, 6 per cent to pedagogical support, 7 per cent to improving management skills and only 3 per cent to fostering the educational community’s participation in decision-making. 74. The Government will have to inject much more funding into the education reform process in order to, inter alia, expand access to good quality public education, provide free textbooks and eventually ensure higher education free of cost. 75. The Special Rapporteur commends President Bachelet for putting a premium on the education agenda as regards its linkage with tax reforms to provide enhanced financial resources for public education. That responds to the State’s responsibility under international human rights law and the national Constitution to provide resources for the realization of the right to education and is a notable example of mobilizing domestic resources for education. 76. Budget allocations for education need to have a firm and durable basis. A legal framework is a crucial requirement for ensuring that political and financial support is sustainable. Efforts to promote the expansion of education opportunities may fail if they are not well anchored in a legal framework that guarantees sustained State investment in the sector and recognizes the strategic importance of education as a foundation for human development. 77. Given that Chile has adopted new education laws, it is necessary for it to adopt a law on financing education in order to ensure that the reform process is not constrained by a lack of resources. Such a law could build on article 19 of the Constitution and on article 4 16 Education for All, “Global Monitoring Report 2013/4”, p. 257. Available at www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/gmr-2013-14-teaching-and-learning-education-for-all-2014en.pdf. 13