title: Centro de alumnos
text: # Centro de alumnos
  
  In Chile, the centros de alumnos (English: students' centres), also known as centros de estudiantes, are student organisations present in all the country's high schools and most of the primary schools.
  
  ## Regulation
  
  The regulation of the centros de alumnos is performed by the Ministry of Education, with the Decree number 524, which states:
  
  * The educational institution cannot interfere in the election of a centro de alumnos, [and] at the same time, it is mandatory for every single high school (establecimiento de Enseñanza Media) to have a centro de alumnos.
  * The centro de alumnos is elected democratically, through an election in which all the students of the educational institution have to participate.
  * The centros de alumnos should have a president, a vice-president, a clerk, a financial secretary, and an executive secretary, they can also create delegations, according to the needs of the educational institution.
  * The centros de alumnos are advised by two teachers of the educational institution, elected by the directive of the centro de alumnos of their respective schools, from a proposal of the council of delegates of class (Consejo de Delegados de Curso).
  
  ## Rights
  
  The centros de alumnos have the right to:
  
  * Participate in the school council, and to actively participate
  * Convoke a general assembly, in which all the students of their schools have to participate
  * Convoke meetings with the directives of the different classes of their high schools or schools
  