(Faculty of Education, Catholic University of Temuco, Chile)

Abstract: Today, the link between concepts of education and diversity are far away in schools in Chile, and even more so in the country’s educational policies, which only interests the concept of inclusion as a more segregating than inclusive concept.

Three years after it was promulgated by President Michelle Bachelet, on Tuesday, March 1 of this year, the School Inclusion Law begins to be officially applied.

Doubts, criticisms and marked differences persist from different sectors towards the new regulations that in principle intends to end the profit, selection and co-payment in subsidized private education establishments and not to the integration and inclusion of students with SEN as a focus principal.