Education policy in Chile to eliminate neoliberal logic in the school market

This article analyzes the attempt to eliminate market logic of the Chilean education system. In 2015, Chile, one of the most privatized countries in the world, tries to eliminate consequences of neoliberal dynamics (school profit and student selection) through the Law of School Inclusion. This attempt to eliminate market dynamics in the educational system is a process of rupture of two paths: the trajectory of the history of the Chilean education system and the global trajectory of pro-privatization educational policies. The methodological process of this research uses analytical elements of the approach of the adoption of the politics of the cultural political economy (variation, selection and retention). The social movements of protest of 2006 and 2011 are the processes to demand a new educational reform in the variation phase. Evidence-Based Education Policies and social rights theory are used to justify the demands of social protests in the selection phase. The negotiations of coalition government and the influence of the private school produce turns in the objectives of the analyzed educational policy to eliminate the market logic of the Chilean education system in the retention phase. Overall, the results and conclusions show that market dynamics are still present in the Chilean education system.