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Córdoba Launches 2,000 Million-Peso Fund for Technical Schools

The move counters a reported 40% drop in federal support tied to the repeal of a national funding floor.

Overview

  • Córdoba created a 2,000 million pesos fund to keep technical schools operating in a system that includes 252 such schools across the province.
  • The province says this funding is five times the roughly 400 million pesos it expects to receive from the national government for technical education.
  • Officials link the shortfall to the end of a rule that guaranteed at least 0.2% of federal current revenue for technical education, which made transfers discretionary.
  • Governor Martín Llaryora criticized President Javier Milei’s administration over the cuts, and Education Minister Horacio Ferreyra and the AMET union backed the provincial move.
  • At the launch in San Francisco, the province also handed out 415 netbooks to local schools as part of a push to support classroom tools.