Municipal Education Management: Challenges for a Quality Education in Chile

The quality of the education that the children receive in Chile, is was determined to his level economic partner generating a situation of inequity and lack of equality of opportunities for the more vulnerable persons, in which the public education, given by the Municipalities, has a relevant role although it concentrates the major quantity of disadvantaged pupils. This paper present the results of the study of perception on the management and functioning in the Directions of Municipal Education of the VIII Region, and Its implication in the problems of improvement of the quality of the education in Chile. In this is visualized the complexity in the regulations and roles that must expire making compatible his administrative management with educationally orientated to the quality. With this one expects to contribute educational system, sharing the problematic ones of management in the DAEM that it is possible to approach, strengthening his role as administration emphasizing the pedagogic thing and the measurement of the results of learning of his pupils.