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Education

Peru
  • English

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    It is the duty and right of parents to feed, to educate and to give security to their children.
    … (Art. 6)

  • Spanish

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    Es deber y derecho de los padres alimentar, educar y dar seguridad a sus hijos.
    … (Art. 6)

Education

Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
  • English
    … The father and mother have the shared and inescapable obligation of raising, training, educating, maintaining and caring for their children, and the latter have the duty to provide care when the former are unable to do so by themselves. … (Art. 76)
  • Spanish
    … El padre y la madre tienen el deber compartido e irrenunciable de criar, formar, educar, mantener y asistir a sus hijos e hijas, y éstos tienen el deber de asistirlos cuando aquél o aquella no puedan hacerlo por sí mismos. … (Art. 76)

Education

Argentina
  • English
    Congress is empowered:
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    19. … To enact laws referring to the organization and basis of education consolidating national unity and respecting provincial and local characteristics; which ensure the state responsibility that cannot be delegated, family and society participation, the fostering of democratic values and equal opportunities and possibilities with no discrimination whatsoever; and which guarantee the principles of free and equitable State public education as well as the autonomy and autarky of national universities.
    … (Sec. 75)
  • Spanish
    Corresponde al Congreso:
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    19. … Sancionar leyes de organización y de base de la educación que consoliden la unidad nacional respetando las particularidades provinciales y locales; que aseguren la responsabilidad indelegable del Estado, la participación de la familia y la sociedad, la promoción de los valores democráticos y la igualdad de oportunidades y posibilidades sin discriminación alguna; y que garanticen los principios de gratuidad y equidad de la educación pública estatal y la autonomía y autarquía de las universidades nacionales.
    … (Art. 75)

Education

Brazil
  • English

    The Union, the states, the Federal District and the municipalities, in common, have the power:
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    V – to provide the means of access to ... education, 
    … (Art. 23)

  • Portuguese

    É competência comum da União, dos Estados, do Distrito Federal e dos Municípios:
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    V - proporcionar os meios de acesso … à educação,
    … (Art. 23)

Education

Costa Rica
  • English
    The State will provide food and clothing to the indigent pupils, in accordance with the law. (Art. 82)
  • Spanish
    El Estado proporcionará alimento y vestido a los escolares indigentes, de acuerdo con la ley. (Art. 82)

Education

Ecuador
  • English
    Education as a public service shall be provided by means of public, mixed public and religious, and private school institutions.
    In the schools, social services and psychological support shall be provided free of charge, in the framework of the system of inclusion and social equity. (Art. 345)
  • Spanish
    La educación como servicio público se prestará a través de instituciones públicas, fiscomisionales y particulares.
    En los establecimientos educativos se proporcionarán sin costo servicios de carácter social y de apoyo psicológico, en el marco del sistema de inclusión y equidad social. (Art. 345)

Education

Guatemala
  • English
    The administration of the educational system must be decentralized and regionalized.
    In the schools established in regions with a predominantly indigenous population, the education must be provided preferentially in [a] bilingual form. (Art. 76)
  • Spanish
    La administración del Sistema educativo deberá ser descentralizado y regionalizado.
    En las escuelas establecidas en zonas de predominante población indígena, la enseñanza deberá impartirse preferentemente en forma bilingüe. (Art. 76)

Education

Honduras
  • English
    Parents have a preferential right to choose the type of education they wish to give their children. (Art. 152)
  • Spanish
    Los padres tendrán derecho preferente a escoger el tipo de educación que habrán de darles a sus hijos. (Art. 152)

Education

Panama
  • English
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    Educational institutions, whether public or private, are open to all students without distinction of race, social position, political ideology, religion, or the nature of the relationship of the student's parents or guardians.
    … (Art. 94)
  • Spanish
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    Los establecimientos de enseñanza, sean oficiales o particulares, están abiertos a todos los alumnos, sin distinción de raza, posición social, ideas políticas, religión o la naturaleza de la unión de sus progenitores o guardadores.
    … (Art. 94)

Education

Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • English
    (1) The Administration3 shall have exclusive responsibility for the administration within the island of Nevis, in accordance with the provisions of any relevant laws, of the following matters:
    ...
    (b) education;
    … (Sec. 106)