Educación en Bogotá 1998-2003: logros obtenidos y lecciones aprendidas

Abstract

"Since 1998 Bogotá s government has created 322,000 new places in basic education. Also, it has been applying tests on math, Spanish and science to the entire set of students of 3 th,5 th, 7 th and 9th grades. These policies have yielded the following outputs: i) the new places have been generated in the city areas with higher proportion of school-age poorest brackets, ii) private-school students switched to public schools, mainly in secondary, plausible explanations may be the 30% real income drop that Bogotá s households faced during recent economic recession, another is the change in relative prices associated with the creation of new places at public schools, iii) school-switching might lead to a marginal restratification upwards of public-schools body of students, iv) the public-private score-gap in math and Spanish is getting closed in primary schools, the score-gap in secondary still remains."