Chile’s government begins to react to disapproval rating of 64%

Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:00 UTC

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In the last week, Chile’s conservative government has made two surprisingly liberal announcements, explained in part by the latest public opinion polls. First, President Sebastián Piñera announced Sunday that he was open to making quality education a constitutional right, just two weeks after he called education a “consumer good”. Read full article

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Forgetit87
“he called education a “consumer good”. ”

Didn't know Piñera was a Latin Republinik.
Aug 04th, 2011 - 08:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Bubba
Education should be a consumer good. First it rewards people that sacrafice beer and football to make sure their kids get a good start. Second, it raises the value of education. Education as a constitutional right gives you an over educated and under employed population that has no incentives...
Aug 06th, 2011 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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