A/HRC/35/24/Add.1 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education on his mission to Chile* Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Dismantling the legacy of market-based policies in education ..................................................... 3 III. International obligations undertaken by Chile concerning the right to education ......................... 4 IV. National legal system concerning the right to education ............................................................... 4 A. Constitutional provisions ...................................................................................................... 4 B. Emerging national legislation ............................................................................................... 5 V. Freedom of teaching and its constitutional limits .......................................................................... 6 VI. Transforming the education scenario ............................................................................................ 7 A. Developments in preschool education .................................................................................. 7 B. Developments in basic education.......................................................................................... 7 C. Developments in higher education........................................................................................ 8 D. Technical and vocational education and training and skills development ............................ 9 E. Equity-based measures for minimizing disparities in education ........................................... 10 Some challenges in fully implementing the reform agenda .......................................................... 11 A. Full realization of the right to inclusive education................................................................ 11 B. Realization of the right to quality education ......................................................................... 12 VIII. Towards a legal framework for financing education ..................................................................... 13 IX. Regulating private educational establishments ............................................................................. 14 VII. A. X. Banning subsidized private educational establishments from making a profit through education ................................................................................................................. 14 B. Obligation to pursue educational purposes ........................................................................... 14 C. Banning profit-making in all private educational establishments ......................................... 14 D. Scrutiny of financial operations of private providers of education ....................................... 15 E. Regulatory framework .......................................................................................................... 15 F. Main parameters of the regulatory framework ..................................................................... 16 Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 16 * Circulated in the language of submission and Spanish only. 2