The elected board of the College of Teachers indicated that it will be a continuity of the current board of directors and announced that the return to face-to-face classes will depend on the formation of a working table with all the actors of the system.

Carlos Díaz, first national majority and new president of the Teachers College, gave his first words on Thursday after being elected as head of the union and pointed to the plan of return to classes of the Ministry of Education.

According to Díaz, the beginning of the school year – set for March 1 of next year by the Mineduc – will depend on the will of the Government to establish a working table with representatives of the educational communities.

“We cannot continue in line with what the minister (Raúl Figueroa) has wanted all this time, to make a decision and that all the rest of us have to assume it and make it our own,” he lashed out.


The current president of the union, Mario Aguilar, assured that the result of the elections was a “very hard” defeat for the lists aligned with the political parties.

“It is a powerful signal,” he valued.

List D ended up being the winner, obtaining 5 positions out of 9 within the national directory, 3 of them, as the first national majorities, obtaining the presidency, the general secretary and the treasury; while list F and E, obtained 2 positions each.