Ministry of Education (Argentina)
The Ministry of Education (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación; ME) of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power that oversees education policies on all educational levels, alongside the governments of the twenty-three provinces of Argentina and the City of Buenos Aires.
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| Ministry overview | |
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| Formed | 1949 (first creation) |
| Preceding Ministry | |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Argentina |
| Headquarters | Palacio Sarmiento Pasaje Pizzurno 935, Buenos Aires |
| Annual budget | $ 397,168,460,932 (2021)[1] |
| Minister responsible | |
| Website | argentina.gob.ar/educacion |
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The Ministry was founded in 1949, when the state's education portfolio was split from the Ministry of Justice and Public Instruction in the first cabinet of President Juan Domingo Perón;[2] the first minister was Oscar Ivanissevich. The current minister is Jaime Perczyk, who has served since 20 September 2021 in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.[3]
The ministry is headquartered at the Sarmiento Palace, popularly known as "Pizzurno Palace" due to its location on Pasaje Pizzurno, in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Recoleta.[4]
List of ministers
| No. | Minister | Party | Term | President | ||
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| Ministry of Education (1949–1956) | ||||||
| 1 | Oscar Ivanissevich | Peronist Party | 11 March 1949 – 11 May 1950 | Juan Domingo Perón | ||
| 2 | Armando Méndez San Martín | Peronist Party | 11 May 1950 – 29 June 1955 | |||
| 3 | Francisco Marcos Anglada | Peronist Party | 29 June 1955 – 21 September 1955 | |||
| 4 | Atilio Dell'Oro Maini | Christian Democratic Party | 21 September 1955 – 17 May 1956 | Eduardo Lonardi | ||
| Pedro Eugenio Aramburu | ||||||
| Ministry of Education and Justice (1949–1956) | ||||||
| 5 | Carlos Adrogué | Radical Civic Union | 8 June 1956 – 25 January 1957 | Pedro Eugenio Aramburu | ||
| 6 | Acdel Ernesto Salas | Independent | 25 January 1957 – 1 May 1958 | |||
| 7 | Luis Rafael Mac Kay | Radical Civic Union | 1 May 1958 – 26 March 1962 | Arturo Frondizi | ||
| 8 | Miguel Sussini | Intransigent Radical Civic Union | 26 March 1962 – 29 March 1962 | |||
| 29 March 1962 – 19 October 1962 | José María Guido | |||||
| 9 | Alberto Rodríguez Galán | Independent | 11 October 1962 – 15 May 1963 | |||
| 10 | José Mariano Astigueta | Independent | 15 May 1963 – 12 October 1963 | |||
| 11 | Carlos Alconada Aramburú | Radical Civic Union | 12 October 1963 – 28 June 1966 | Arturo Illia | ||
| Ministry of Education (1966–1973) | ||||||
| 12 | Carlos María Gelly y Obes | Independent | 28 June 1966 – 4 June 1967 | Juan Carlos Onganía | ||
| 13 | José Mariano Astigueta | Independent | 4 June 1967 – 23 October 1969 | |||
| 14 | Dardo Pérez Guilhou | Independent | 23 October 1969 – 8 June 1970 | |||
| 15 | José Luis Cantini | Independent | 8 June 1970 – 23 March 1971 | Roberto Marcelo Levingston | ||
| 16 | Gustavo Malek | Independent | 23 March 1971 – 25 May 1973 | Alejandro Lanusse | ||
| Ministry of Culture and Education (1973) | ||||||
| 17 | Jorge Alberto Taiana | Justicialist Party | 25 May 1973 – 13 July 1973 | Héctor Cámpora | ||
| Ministry of Education (1973–1981) | ||||||
| 17 | Jorge Alberto Taiana | Justicialist Party | 13 July 1973 – 14 August 1974 | Raúl Lastiri | ||
| Juan Domingo Perón | ||||||
| Isabel Perón | ||||||
| 18 | Oscar Ivanissevich | Justicialist Party | 14 August 1974 – 11 August 1975 | Isabel Perón | ||
| 19 | Pedro J. Arrighi | Justicialist Party | 11 August 1975 – 24 March 1976 | |||
| 20 | Ricardo P. Bruera | Independent | 29 March 1976 – 28 May 1977 | Jorge Rafael Videla | ||
| 21 | Juan José Catalán | Independent | 28 May 1977 – 26 August 1977 | |||
| 22 | Juan Rafael Llerena Amadeo | Independent | 26 August 1977 – 29 March 1981 | |||
| Ministry of Culture and Education (1981) | ||||||
| 23 | Carlos Burundarena | Independent | 29 March 1981 – 12 December 1981 | Roberto Viola | ||
| Ministry of Education (1981–1983) | ||||||
| 24 | Cayetano Licciardo | Independent | 22 December 1981 – 10 December 1983 | Roberto Viola | ||
| Ministry of Education and Justice (1983–1989) | ||||||
| 25 | Carlos Alconada Aramburú | Radical Civic Union | 10 December 1983 – 21 June 1986 | Raúl Alfonsín | ||
| 26 | Julio Rajneri | Independent | 21 June 1986 – 10 September 1987 | |||
| 27 | Jorge Federico Sabato | Radical Civic Union | 10 September 1987 – 26 May 1989 | |||
| 28 | José Gabriel Dumón | Radical Civic Union | 26 May 1989 – 8 July 1989 | |||
| Ministry of Education (1989–2001) | ||||||
| 29 | Antonio Salonia | Independent | 8 July 1989 – 4 December 1992 | Carlos Menem | ||
| 30 | Jorge Alberto Rodríguez | Justicialist Party | 4 December 1992 – 28 March 1996 | |||
| 31 | Susana Decibe | Justicialist Party | 28 March 1996 – 7 May 1999 | |||
| 32 | Manuel García Solá | MID | 7 May 1999 – 10 December 1999 | |||
| 33 | Juan José Llach | Radical Civic Union | 10 December 1999 – 25 September 2000 | Fernando de la Rúa | ||
| 34 | Hugo Juri | Radical Civic Union | 25 September 2000 – 20 March 2001 | |||
| 35 | Andrés Delich | Radical Civic Union | 20 March 2001 – 21 December 2001 | |||
| Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2002–2003) | ||||||
| 36 | Graciela Giannettasio | Justicialist Party | 3 January 2002 – 25 May 2003 | Eduardo Duhalde | ||
| 37 | Daniel Filmus | Justicialist Party | 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2007 | Néstor Kirchner | ||
| Ministry of Education (2007–2015) | ||||||
| 38 | Juan Carlos Tedesco | Independent | 10 December 2007 – 20 July 2009 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | ||
| 39 | Alberto Sileoni | Justicialist Party | 20 July 2009 – 10 December 2015 | |||
| Ministry of Education and Sports (2015–2017) | ||||||
| 40 | Esteban Bullrich | Republican Proposal | 10 December 2015 – 17 July 2017 | Mauricio Macri | ||
| Ministry of Education (2017–2018) | ||||||
| 41 | Alejandro Finocchiaro | Republican Proposal | 17 July 2017 – 5 September 2018 | Mauricio Macri | ||
| Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology (2018–2019) | ||||||
| 41 | Alejandro Finocchiaro | Republican Proposal | 5 September 2018 – 10 December 2019 | Mauricio Macri | ||
| Ministry of Education (2019–present) | ||||||
| 42 | Nicolás Trotta | Independent | 10 December 2019 – 20 September 2021 | Alberto Fernández | ||
| 43 | Jaime Perczyk | Independent | 20 September 2021 – incumbent | |||
References
- "Presupuesto 2021". Ministerio de Economía (in Spanish). 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- Ferreyra, Gabriela Verónica (8 October 2015). "La educación durante los años peronistas. El Consejo Nacional de Educación y las orientaciones pedagógico-didácticas destinadas a los maestros (1948-1949)" [Education during Peronist Periods. The National Education Council and orientations pedagogic didactics destined for the teachers (1948 – 1949)] (PDF). Revista de Estudios Marítimos y Sociales (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- "Qué dijo Nicolás Trotta en su carta de renuncia al Ministerio de Educación". Perfil (in Spanish). 20 September 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- "Clave: Gobierno suma 80 nuevas obras públicas; sube gasto $708.000 millones". Ámbito (in Spanish). 6 August 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.


