Argentina is divided into twenty-three federated states called provinces and one called the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the republic as decided by the Argentine Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions and exist under a federal system.
Education in state institutions is at the initial, primary, secondary and tertiary levels and in the undergraduate university level. Private education is paid, although in some cases state subsidies support its costs. According to studies by UNESCO, education in Argentina and Uruguay guarantee equality to have institutional features that hinder the commercialization of education, as well as Finland has characteristics that favor multiethnic population education and special education, education favors Argentina equality. According to the last census, the illiteracy rate is 1.9%, the second lowest in Latin America. In the last decade, Argentina has created nine new universities, while the outflow of university students increased by 68%.
La Pampa is a sparsely populated province of Argentina, located in the Pampas in the center of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise San Luis, Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Río Negro, Neuquén and Mendoza.
Carlos Alberto Verna is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician who was governor of La Pampa Province twice, from 2003 to 2007 and from 2015 to 2019. He was also a National Senator for La Pampa for two terms, and served as intendente (mayor) of General Pico.
The El Leoncito Astronomical Complex is an astronomical observatory in the San Juan Province of Argentina. CASLEO is one of two observatories located within El Leoncito National Park, which is in a part of the country which rarely sees cloud cover. The other facility in the park is the Carlos U. Cesco Astronomical Station of the Félix Aguilar Observatory. CASLEO was established in 1983 by an agreement between National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCYT) of Argentina, the National University of San Juan (UNSJ), the National University of La Plata (UNLP), and the National University of Córdoba (UNC). The facility was dedicated in 1986 and regular observations began in 1987.
Rubén Hugo Marín was an Argentine politician who was a Senator for La Pampa Province. He was also a governor of the province on two occasions. Marín, a lawyer by profession, was a member of the Justicialist Party.
Óscar Mario Jorge is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who was governor of La Pampa Province from 2007 to 2015.
The National University of Misiones is a public university in Argentina. It has a publishing house and a radio station, LRH301 FM Universidad Nacional de Misiones, that streams in Ogg Vorbis format.
Juan Carlos Tedesco was an Argentine academic and policy maker who was the President's Education Minister, from December 2007 to July 2009.
The National University of Northwestern Buenos Aires is a national university with head office and campus in Junín, Argentina. This city concentrates 80% of the activities, and nearly 2 out of 3 students take classes there. The university has also a campus in Pergamino city.
Events from the year 1997 in Argentina
Sergio Raúl Ziliotto is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who is currently governor of La Pampa Province, since 10 December 2019. Previously, from 2015 to 2019, he was a National Deputy for La Pampa.
Norma Haydée Durango is an Argentine politician who was a National Senator for La Pampa Province from 2015 to 2021. She previously served as Vice Governor of La Pampa under Governor Óscar Jorge from 2011 to 2015 and under Governor Carlos Verna from 2003 to 2007. She belongs to the Justicialist Party.
Ariel Rauschenberger is an Argentine politician who serves as a National Deputy elected La Pampa since 2023, having previously held the position from 2017 to 2021. He belongs to the Justicialist Party.
Martín Antonio Berhongaray, is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in La Pampa since 2019. He is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). Berhongaray previously served as a member of La Pampa's provincial legislature, and as president of the UCR Committee of Santa Rosa.
Melina Aída Delú is an Argentine politician who served as a National Deputy elected in La Pampa from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Justicialist Party, Delú sat in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc from 2019 to 2021.
Martín Maquieyra is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in La Pampa since 2016. He is a member of Republican Proposal (PRO), and currently sits in the Juntos por el Cambio parliamentary bloc.
The Chamber of Deputies of La Pampa Province is the unicameral legislative body of La Pampa Province, in Argentina. It convenes in the provincial capital, Santa Rosa.
Jorge Alberto Rodríguez is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers and as Minister of Education during the second presidency of Carlos Menem.
Daniel Ricardo Kroneberger is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for La Pampa since 2021. He belongs to the Radical Civic Union (UCR). Kroneberger previously served two non-consecutive terms as a National Deputy elected in La Pampa, from 2005 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2019. Prior to that, he served as intendente of Colonia Barón, a rural community in La Pampa, for ten years from 1995 to 2005.
