385 mil estudiantes asisten a centros educativos sin biblioteca | CR Hoy

385 mil estudiantes asisten a centros educativos sin biblioteca | CR Hoy

The audit reveals that the absence of school libraries significantly limits the development of critical thinking and research skills among students. Without these spaces, opportunities to access teaching resources and foster reading as a habit are reduced, thereby widening educational gaps between young people with and without access to external resources. The Ministry of Public Education lacks a systematic strategy to prioritize the opening of new libraries, leaving the initiative to school principals. This lack of planning, combined with budgetary constraints, prevents resources from being allocated to the most vulnerable populations or areas with the greatest need, thus perpetuating existing territorial inequalities. This analysis is relevant to open data because it underscores the urgency for public institutions to generate and publish open data on the location and shortcomings of educational infrastructure. Transparency in information enables the identification of real inequalities and the demand for evidence-based policies to guarantee the right to information and equitable learning, which are fundamental to the knowledge society.

Source: crhoy.com
Published on 2026-09-30