Secretariat of Education (Argentina)

Secretariat of Education
Secretaría de Educación

Palacio Sarmiento, headquarters
Secretariat overview
Formed1949; 75 years ago (1949)
Preceding Secretariat
Superseding Secretariat
JurisdictionGovernment of Argentina
HeadquartersPalacio Sarmiento,
Buenos Aires
Annual budget$ 397,168,460,932 (2021)[1]
Secretariat executive
  • Carlos Torrendell, Secretary
Websiteargentina.gob.ar/educacion

The Secretariat of Education (Spanish: Secretaría de Educación, formerly Ministry of Education) of Argentina is a secretariat and former ministry of the national executive power that oversaw education policies on all educational levels, alongside the governments of the twenty-three provinces of Argentina and the City of Buenos Aires.

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.[3]

After president Javier Milei dissolved the Ministry of Education turning it into a secretariat,[4] Carlos Torrendell was appointed as secretary.[5] The secretariat is controlled by the Ministry of Human Capital.[6]

The secretariat of Education 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.[7]

  1. ^ "Presupuesto 2021". Ministerio de Economía (in Spanish). 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ [https://www.aacademica.org/000-099/119.pdf La “depuración oficial” en las políticas educativas: la gestión Ivanissevich en el Ministerio de Educación] on UNLP
  4. ^ Qué ministerios ELIMINÓ Javier MILEI tras su ASUNCIÓN on Cronista.com, 10 Dec 2023
  5. ^ Jaureguy, Martina (3 December 2023). "What we know about Javier Milei's cabinet so far". Buenos Aires Herald. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  6. ^ MINISTERIO DE CAPITAL HUMANO SECRETARÍA DE EDUCACIÓN - Resolución 90/2024 on Boletín Oficial de la Argentina, 4 Apr 2024
  7. ^ "Clave: Gobierno suma 80 nuevas obras públicas; sube gasto $708.000 millones". Ámbito (in Spanish). 6 August 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.