LEGAL POLICES

The following laws regulate the bilingual activity inside the schools.

Low 115/1994: This low point out the policies to regulate the education's public service, in the article 20 it shows that students have to acquire elements in order to speak and read in at least a foreign language, this is the reason the National Ministery of Education creates the conditions to get the goal. to see more about this low you can do it in this link: http://www.mineducacion.gov.co/1621/articles-85906_archivo_pdf.pdf

Agreement 253/2006: Whit this the Bogotá Bilingual Program is institutionalized, it looks for citizens able to communicate in english with international standards, the aim is make Bogotá an atractive city for tourism and international investment. It pretends  to develop this project since kindergarden until high school. You can see the agreement complete in the next link.  http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=22230

Plan Sectorial de educación 2008-2012: It looks for an education with quality, poor comand of the foreign language is one of the problems that it will resolve, for this reason it pretends to develop and improve the communicative competence in order to get the leve B2 of the Common European Framework in English. Tools like TICS, texts and immersion programs with native teacher are important to get the aim. Look more in this link.
http://www.sedbogota.edu.co/archivos/SECRETARIA_EDUCACION/PLAN_SECTORIAL/PLAN%20SECTORIAL%20EDUCACION%20DE%20CALIDAD%202008-2012.pdf