Constitutional Guarantees
of the right to education
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Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 19 November 1986
Relevant Provisions
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Title IV - Rights, duties and guarantees of the Nicaraguan People
Chapter III - Social rights
Art.58
Nicaraguans have the right to education and culture.
Art.69
All persons, either individually or in a group, have the right to manifest their religious beliefs in public or private, through worship, practices and teachings.
Chapter IV - Family rights
Art.76
The State shall create special programs and develop special centers for the care of minors; minors have the right to measures of prevention, protection and education from their family, society and the State, as required by their condition.
Title VII - Education and Culture
Art.118
The State promotes the participation of the family, the community and the people in education and guarantees the support of the means of social communication for this purpose.
Art.119
Education is an indeclinable function of the State. Planning, direction and organization of education corresponds to the State. The national educational system functions in an integrated fashion and in accordance with national plans. Its organization and functioning are determined by law.
It is the duty of the State to train and prepare the necessary technical and professional personnel at all levels and specializations for the development and transformation of the country.
Art.120
The creative application of educational plans and policies is a fundamental role of the national teaching profession. Teachers have the right to standards of living and work in accord with their dignity and with the important social function that they carry out; they shall be promoted and given incentives in accordance with the law.
Art.121
The access to education is free and equal for all Nicaraguans. Primary education is free of charge and mandatory at the centers of the State. The secondary education is free of charge at the centers of the State without prejudice to any voluntary contributions which parents of the family may make. No one may be excluded in any form from a state center for economic reasons. The indigenous peoples and ethnic communities of the Atlantic Coast have the right in their region to intercultural education in their native language, in accordance with the law.
Art.122
Adults shall enjoy opportunities to be educated and to develop skills through capacitation and training programs.
The State shall continue its educational programs to eliminate illiteracy.
Art.123
Private centers dedicated to teaching may function at all levels, subject to the precepts established in this Constitution.
Art.124
Education in Nicaragua is secular. The State recognizes the right of private centers dedicated to teaching with a religious orientation to impart religion as an extracurricular subject.
Art.125
The universities and superior technical education centers enjoy academic, financial, organic and administrative autonomy, in accordance with the law.
They shall be exempt from any class of taxes and fiscal contributions, regional and municipal. (…) Universities and superior technical education centers, which, according to law, must be state-funded, shall receive an annual allocation of six percent of the general Budget of the Republic, which shall be distributed according to law. The State may allocate additional contributions to cover extraordinary expenditures of these universities and superior technical education centers.
Academic freedom is guaranteed.
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