Constitutional Guarantees
of the right to education
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Date of adoption/date of entry into force - 20 June 1992
Relevant Provisions
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20 June 1992
Title II - Rights, duties, and guaranties
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Chapter V - About Indian peoples
Art.66 - About education and assistance
The State will respect the cultural heritage of Indian peoples, especially regarding their formal education (…).
Chapter VII - About education and culture
Art.73 - The right to education and its goals
Everyone has the right to a comprehensive, permanent educational system, conceived as a process within the cultural context of the community. The elimination of illiteracy and the implementation of job training programs are permanent objectives of the educational system.
Art.74 - The right to learn and the freedom to teach
The right to learn and to have equal access opportunities to the benefits of humanistic culture, science, and technology, without any discrimination, is hereby guaranteed. Freedom to teach, without any requirement other than having ethical integrity and being competent for the job, as well as the right to have a religious education and ideological pluralism are also guaranteed.
Art.75 - Educational responsibility
The responsibility for education rests with society, especially with each family, municipal government, and with the State.
The State will implement programs to provide nutritional supplements and school supplies to low-income students.
Art.76 - The obligations of the State
Elementary education is mandatory. It is free in public schools.
The State will promote secondary, technical, agricultural, industrial, and higher or university education, as well as scientific and technological research. It is an essential responsibility of the State to organize the educational system, with participation of the distinct educational communities. The system will encompass the public and private sectors, as well as activities conducted both inside and outside schools.
Art.77 - Teaching in a native language
(1) Teaching in the early school career will be in the official language of which the student is a native speaker. Students will be taught to understand and to use both official languages of the Republic likewise.
(2) Ethnic minorities, whose native language is not Guaraní may chose either of the two official languages..
Art.78 - Technical education
The State will promote job training through technical education programs in order to develop the human resources required to achieve national development.
Art.79 - Universities and higher education institutes
Universities are autonomous institutions. Therefore, they will establish their own bylaws and forms of government and will draft their own study plans in accordance with the national education policy and development plans. Freedom of teaching is hereby guaranteed. Universities, whether public or private, will be created by law.
Art.80 - Funds for scholarship and aid
The law will provide for the allocation of funds for scholarships and other types of aid, seeking to promote the intellectual, scientific, or artistic skills of individuals, preferentially of those having meager resources.
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