FEDERACION ESPAÑOLA DE MUNICIPIOS Y PROVINCIAS

Commitment of Latin American Mayors for Education


On 16 October, Ibero-American mayors in Mar del Plata stressed his commitment to education as a public and social law and called on their national governments, regional and provincial institutional coordination needed to implement the objectives in education by the minister. This is provided in the Final Declaration of the V Latin American Forum of Mayors, held under the theme "Education par social inclusion"



The Forum was attended by a Spanish delegation led by Deputy Mayor of Palencia, Isabel Rodriguez, who spoke at the opening ceremony, she recalled that the match commemorating 2010 as the Year of Education in Latin America, and Year for Combating Poverty and Exclusion Social Europe, was a "causality"-that does not happen, "and advocated education as" an essential investment for the future in economic, social and human: a guarantee against social exclusion and an engine of social mobility " . Enguera Mayors and Rute and the Mayor of Villamayor completed the delegation of our country in Mar del Plata.
 
The V Forum discussed the role of Local Government in the framework of education for social inclusion and addressed in different panels, issues of quality education, the local contribution to education for citizenship, leaving school education of the young or the elimination of digital divide in public education.
 
It also announced the declaration issued in September in Buenos Aires, the Ministers of Education of Latin American countries, which is committed to educational strategies that promote social inclusion and make cities places for integration solidarity, sustainability and coexistence.
 
The V Ibero-American Forum of Mayors, which opened on October 15, ended his work the next day at the closing ceremony, presented the Declaration of Mar del Plata: Education for social inclusion, role of local governments, which are reflected the conclusions of the Forum and the Latin American Mayors bet for a quality inclusive education and