Nayib Bukele

As the reform reaches more and more schools, national assessments will allow everyone, including our critics, to judge whether the gains observed in the pilot are spreading throughout the system. If they aren’t, we will have to understand why and fix it. If they are, then we keep going. That’s how evidence based public policy should work. So no, these results do not prove that El Salvador already has the educational outcomes of Germany or Sweden. They don’t prove that every Salvadoran school has been transformed. And they don’t prove that every element of our reform works equally well. What they DO show is that ordinary Salvadoran children in ordinary Salvadoran public schools, when given a radically improved educational environment, can achieve results that most people would have considered impossible for our country only a year ago. These 171 schools were the proof of concept. Now comes the difficult part: reproducing those results across an entire country. More than 1,000 schools are already implementing the program. Within 18 months, every public school in El Salvador will be. Then, we’ll have a lot more data. We are not afraid of that. We are betting on it 🇸🇻