In this paper the most important moments of the educational policy in Argentine, related to the privatization process of social life, are reviewed. Putting aside some commonplace hypothesis, this process is analyzed as a consequence of the ways involved in the response to demands from classes or groups along the history of our country. This process led to the strengthening of a group of private suppliers of educational services, protected by measures that guarantee the financial support from the State and the presence of their interests when public education policies are prepared. The meaning of this process is considered within the frame of resetting the predominant forces in the present period of capitalism. Its hegemony is settled making the different forms of privatization -traditional or new of the national education system look natural, and hiding their real effects: the devaluation of public education as a universal value and of the role of the State to guarantee that education is equally distributed.
privatization; educational policy; public education; State; third way