New law places priority on Venezuela's education

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New law places priority on Venezuela's education

Friday 14 August 2009

Venezuela's National Assembly has passed a law that guarantees "quality education" for all and seeks to ensure that children grow up to become socially responsible citizens.

Rightwingers claim that the Organic Law on Education amounts to "socialist indoctrination" and, as MPs began approving the legislation article by article last night, demonstrations both for and against the reform kicked off in central Caracas.

Education Minister Hector Navarro accused conservatives and the corporate media of orchestrating "a smear campaign" to deceive Venezuelans and destabilise the government.

"It was said that families would be left without the patria potestas of their children and that the state, or the so-called regime, was going to concentrate about 10 million kids in children's centres to indoctrinate them until they were 20 years old," Mr Navarro reported.

He said that "this invention was created by an announcer who worked at the state-run Radio Nacional de Venezuela - he is working now at a radio station in Miami."

Article 3 of the law reads that "the state will guarantee the infrastructure, equipment, investments, programmes and human resources and services to assure that everyone has equality of conditions and opportunity and democratic, continuous, integral, intercultural, quality education."

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/world/new_law_places_priority_on_venezuela_s_education