This paper helps identifying the amount of public expenditures allotted to basic education, the amount of resources applied to each education level and modality, the weight of each government level in public education funding and the priority given to education within the public budget. It shows that: 1) although the educational funding system has been spared from budget cuts, education expenditures have not increased their macroeconomic importance within the total public expenditures, which evidences that the government gives low priority to education; 2) most of the public educational expenditures are allotted to basic education, and more particularly to fundamental education; and finally 3) a great part of the government actions have been decentralized to the local level.
Basic education; Education funding; Expenditures for education; Educational system
