The initiative There is no age limit to obtain the benefitbut rather establishes the requirement of being a student at one of the aforementioned educational levels. It also requires that the student be a resident of the City and establishes a maximum income of up to $1,500,000. From the ruling party they point out that it is to promote equity and reach those who need it most.
Besides, The number of trips to be used will be expanded, from the 50 per month that govern today to a total of 96from Monday to Saturday and up to 4 per day. This measure will apply not only to new beneficiaries but also to compulsory education levels.
The legislator fulfilled her mandate from UP, Lucia Campora, was invited to speak at the close of the debate in the joint Committee on Education and Budget: “I want to congratulate the colleagues of the student movement and the educational community for achieving a ruling that manages to obtain a right from this City government.”
“How many times have we presented projects. The struggle of those before us made sense. Congratulations to each and every one,” he said and then sent a message to the rest of the legislators: “The City has to turn this bill into law. It is the territory with the largest university in South America and does not have a university ticket. It’s a shame. I hope it becomes law.”
Next, Barry, promoter of another of the projects together with students and teachers, took the opportunity to remember that the University Ticket is a “historical claim that cost the disappearance of young people during the last dictatorship, in the repression that went down in history as the Night of the Pencils.” the daughter of Susana Mata and Juan Alejandro Barry, both missing, he was born in the Olmos prison while his mother was illegally detained.
Claims of Union for the Homeland
The debate in committee was attended by representatives of institutions of the Education, students and references of student centers that conveyed complaints and points of view on the subjectwith a central organizing idea: the ticket “cannot be postponed” and should not leave out any university student. To graph the impact it has on the university students who use buses and trains to go and return from their homes to He went from spending $4,000 per month to spending more than $33,000 in Octoberdue to the increase in rates and the reduction of transportation subsidies.
One of the latest discussions raised by the Peronist bloc is to expand the scope of the benefit to those who live in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. However, he encountered a strong resistance of the official arch and radicalismwhich prioritized those who reside in the City.
According to calculations by the Peronist bench, the current project targets a universe of 106,773 peopleif all those who could do it were noted, and it would imply an increase in the tax cost of 0.12% of the Buenos Aires Budget. If it were extended to those who make up the “fragile” middle class in the AMBA (with income of at least the level of the Total Basket but not exceeding 1.25 times the TC) it would cover 238,753 people, with a cost of 0.21% . And if the inclusion of the middle class were allowed, it would reach 268,945 students and the expense would be 0.29%.
“If we take into account that the City reduced the transportation subsidy by 0.69%, we are talking about less than half of that figure. It is an expense that can be assumed. That is why we ask that it be expanded to 268,945 students”, so that discrimination is not generated between “first and second year students”, pointed out the UP Buenos Aires representative. Delfina Velázquez.
The head of the UCR block, Manuela Thourte, celebrated the signing of the opinion without failing to highlight some shortcomings. “We would have liked it to be less restrictive, but We are very happy that we can finally, after years of struggles and complaints, have a student ticket for university students“, said.
Regarding the discussion about the AMBA, The radical legislator made her position clear. “I understand the claim because it is a region that has not resolved a lot of issues because they are two different jurisdictions, including transportation, but if we look at the Provincial Student Ticket law, it does not contemplate those who reside in the City either.”responded to UP’s proposal and stressed: “The Province takes care of its residents and the City must take care of its own.”
Then he revealed a little pearl from his time as a student to graph the heterogeneity of the university students, and mark distances with those who propose extending the scope of the Ticket benefits without considering income criteria. “I am a graduate of the UBA. My parents didn’t have enough money, but I didn’t need the ticket. With me he attended daughter of Mauricio Macri, who clearly didn’t need it either. With this project we want to have a criterion for those who need it. The focus was on poor, middle class and fragile middle class households. There are many students from public and private universities with zero fees who do not need it. It is logical to adjust State resources to those who need them,” he said.
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Changes to the educational ticket in the City: benefit for companions and claims for teachers
The opinion agreed upon by most of the forces that make up the Buenos Aires Parliament, with exception of La Libertad Avanzaalso proposes to include the accompanying students under 12 years of age among the beneficiaries. Today, students at pre-university levels do not pay a fee, but those who accompany them do. “With these changes we are giving them a 55% rate,” Thourte highlighted.
During the debate, UP legislator Claudia Neira, representative of the bloc on the Budget and Finance Commission, demanded greater coverage for companions. As proposed, should reach 100% of the rate. In any case, he celebrated the signing of the opinion. “The ruling to extend the educational ticket in the City is a great advance! Now, let’s continue working so that this right reaches all those who need it to guarantee access to education,” he expressed.
During the debate in committee, the ruling party was also asked to include teachers and non-teachers in the project. Anahí Vera, teacher at Secondary Level 9 Educational Center, the Buenos Aires system aimed at people who want to resume or start secondary studies. “For it to really be an educational ticket, it has to consider the teachers. “We ask you to take into account this claim that we have been making for several years.”he asked. UP and the left insisted that workers be included in the expansion, but The ruling party and the allies did not support the claim.
The final ruling that will be discussed in the chamber did not have the support of the libertarian bloc that leads Pilar Ramirez. “There are a lot of inconsistencies to adjust within what is presented. It is not known what the universe of students who are going to use it is. To this we must add the parents who accompany them, which is logical. We do not know the total number,” LLA warned this medium.
Regarding the increase in free tickets per month, in the libertarian wing they complained that a control mechanism is not determined to guarantee that their use is exclusively for educational purposes. “It does not have a cut-off date or way to segment it, so they could be used for anything else,” they questioned.
Due to the important support that the initiative received throughout the discussions in committee, and with an opinion signed by all the blocks except La Libertad Avanza, It is expected that the initiative will be approved during the next session of the Legislature, on December 12when projects such as the Budget 2025, Clean Sheet and Urban Code.
Source: Ambito
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