Chile needs to deepen the management of the subnational governments in education like a strategic measurement for its development. Although the diagnoses build the matter arouses almost unanimous support, recognizing the necessity to undertake this task decidedly, has not advanced with the speed and required depth, product of which, the profits in this field are smaller of hoped, the matter that is constituted in one of the main challenges, permanent and more excellent than it is the involution of the capacity of management of the subnational governments. The work reviews the notion of the State and the Government applied in the Chilean case, inasmuch as the decentralization processes, constitute the frame in which the challenges of management of the subnational governments register. More ahead some criteria of reform in the management of the State settle down, to advance towards the relation subnational Governments and the development of the education, aspect that in central analyzes results of the Chilean educative reform and the processes of subnational management of the national government and, identifying those aspects that require of one more a revision prisoner, in matters like the policies of financing of the educative system, the results in the matter of quality and the difficulties of the processes of management in the present legal context. Finally the roll of the public education like option of democratic development is reinforced, in a vision of convoking leadership of the other agents who participate in the educational field, and with a clear sense of generator of a local identity.
Public management; Decentralization processes; Development of subnational governments; Financing of the education; Public education
