The MEP highlights four elements that allowed to reduce exclusion. 18 Regional Directorates located throughout the country decreased the exclusion percentage.
All educational levels recorded a decrease of 0.6%. When compared to 2015, the percentages had a decrease of 13.1% in night-education levels, 0.3% in elementary level an 0.8% in secondary level.
What was the key?
Alexandra Ulate, coordinator of Yo Me Apunto Institutional Strategy, commented that this strategy has been fundamental to achieve progress. She highlights 4 elements that can be considered the most important ones:
-Sensitization: Moving from the concept of “dropout” to “exclusion”. According to Ulate, that change was made because they realized that it is everyone’s responsibility if a young man stops going to school.
-Coordination: Both inside and outside the MEP. Formerly, exclusion was only a student’s life issue, but now it is articulated.
-Accompaniment and follow-up: In the educational centers which are part of the 75 priority attention districts, the reality of the student population has been monitored and a constant communication has been maintained.
-Empowerment: Each institution has accepted its reality and has endorsed the topic of exclusion. They have had good initiatives that have been adopted by other educational centers.