Oportunidades Educativas y Territorio: Un Análisis de la Migración de Matrícula en la Educación Pública de la Región del Maule (Chile).

Shortcomings in the funding system, along to public policies that promote private schools at expense of public schools, have influenced the emergence of a segregated school system that is accented in Chile by a marked inequality in the spatial distribution of education providers. In fact, student migration from public to private schools may be understood as a strategy from students and their families to deal with inequality in public education provision. This paper makes a study of migration from public schools to private schools in Chile, using the Maule Region as case of study. It concludes that the main challenge of a regional education policy is to promote collaboration within the public system to face competition from private education, improve quality and equity of the system as a whole, and enhance the prestige of public schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]