Alejandro Finocchiaro
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Alejandro Finocchiaro in 2018
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| Minister of education | |
| Assumed office July 17, 2017 | |
| President | Mauricio Macri |
| Preceded by | Esteban Bullrich |
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| Born | (1967-08-27) August 27, 1967 (age 56) San Fernando Partido, Argentina |
| Political party | Juntos por el Cambio |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires, University of San Andrés |
| Website | https://alejandrofinocchiaro.com/ |
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Alejandro Oscar Finocchiaro (born 27 August 1967, San Fernando, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine lawyer and politician who is the current Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Argentina. Previously he was general director of Culture and Education of the province of Buenos Aires and Secretary of Educational Policies and Teaching Career in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Finocchiaro is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and has a master's degree in education from the University of San Andrés. He also holds a doctorate in history from the Universidad del Salvador.[1][2]
Finocchiaro is an associate professor of state theory at UBA Law School, head of contemporary international policy at the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES), and professor of political law at the National University of La Matanza (UNLaM); he served as Dean of of the College of Law and Political Science at the latter institution from 2004 to 2011.[3][4]
Finocchiaro has authored the books UBA c / Estado Nacional. A study on university autonomy[5] and El mito reformista,[6] as well as articles on international politics, education, history, and political philosophy.[7]
Between 2011 and 2015, Finocchiaro served as Secretary of Educational Policies and Teaching Career in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.[8] In December 2015 he was appointed by governor María Eugenia Vidal as general director of Culture and Education of the province of Buenos Aires.[9]
Since July 2017 he has served as Argentina's Minister of Education.[10] As a minister, shortly after assuming his post, he decided to reduce the Our School program by canceling the plan that allowed thousands of teachers across the country to access a free postgraduate course through online training courses, starting in January 2018 with the closing of three posts.[11] At the same time, the decree eliminated the national parity of teachers, which caused conflicts in several provinces.[12] The conflict led to a strike and suspended the teaching of classes in the 57 national universities, covering 190,000 teachers and 1.6 million students,[13] in addition to the 3,000 million pesos cut in public universities.[14][15]
In September 2018, after the reduction of ministries implemented by President Mauricio Macri, Finocchiaro was put in charge of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, absorbing the former Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation.[16]
In 2019 he is running for mayor of La Matanza under the Together for Change Party.[17]
On June 27, 2019, Finocchiaro strongly condemned a school in Chaco Province which displayed a Cuban flag on Argentina's Flag Day labeling the Cuban regime as "What differences are there between the regime of Cuba and Nazism?". He also described Che Guevara as a "criminal and genocider".[18]
Days later he recalled that the school was indoctrinating children with "communism and ideologies of totalitarian and populist governments"; he further said the school would be reviewed.[19]
Finocchiaro is Argentina's extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the Working Group on International Cooperation for Education, Remembrance and Holocaust Research at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.[20][21] Finocchiaro produced the documentary Mujeres de la Shoá ("Women of the Holocaust") together with the Shoá Museum of Argentina and the UNLaM.[4]
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