The Buenos Aires City Ministry of Education has yet to approve the 2026-2027 cohort for the postgraduate specialization in Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE). If the program does not start this year, the city could be left without a public and free teacher training program in this field. The program has been running since 2009 at the Joaquín V. González Institute—one of the city's 29 teacher-training colleges—and has a nearly two-decade history of training specialists in the subject. “This would be a serious breach of CSE laws, both national and municipal, which clearly state that jurisdictions must guarantee teacher training,” stated the program's team. In this context, teachers and students are demanding the immediate approval of the project for 2026, the opening of registrations, and the continuation of the postgraduate program, which for over fifteen years has been training specialists in Comprehensive Sex Education within the education system. The measure affects not only the CSE postgraduate program but also other specializations at the teacher-training college and various other postgraduate programs in the city. New regulations presented in February established changes that required the reformulation of academic projects. “Many times we started without having the resolution signed and with the teaching team not being paid,” they recounted. A project submitted with no response The current conflict began in March 2025, when the team submitted—as they do every year—the project to open the 2026-2027 cohort. This is a two-year program for teachers and professionals that grants a specialization degree, and according to the teaching team, it has had high demand since its creation. “It is a specialization for teachers and professionals that operates at the Joaquín V. González. It is a public and free space, a two-year postgraduate program that grants the title of specialist,” Eugenia Otero, the program's coordinator, explained to this medium. According to her details, over a thousand people have formally graduated from the postgraduate program, although the actual number of teachers who have passed through its classrooms is higher. “If it is not opened, the city will be left without teacher training in Comprehensive Sex Education,” warned the coordinator. For the teaching team, this situation also implies a possible breach of current legislation. “We say roughly a thousand graduates because those are the ones with their degrees, but the truth is that many more people have passed through the postgraduate program's classrooms since 2009, when we began to operate,” she noted. The demand for training far exceeds the capacity for enrollment. Despite the difficulties, the team decided to adapt to the new requirements and resubmitted the project in March. However, administrative timelines put the start of the classes at risk. “Even if approval comes quickly, we are already at a time when we should be enrolling students and we still do not have the approved resolution,” warned Otero. The last space for teacher training in CSE The concern deepens in a context in which other CSE training proposals have been closed in the city in recent years. “This year, several city postgraduate programs were closed, including the other major CSE program, which was the School of Teachers program, and one on Childhood, Rights, and CSE,” noted Otero. In this scenario, the Joaquín V. González postgraduate program could become the only space for continuous teacher training in Comprehensive Sex Education in the city. “The only space that would remain for teachers who are already graduated to train in CSE would be ours. However, they received no official response throughout the year. “Throughout the year, we requested information and wrote to the corresponding area of the ministry through the rectorate of the Joaquín, but we received no response,” explained Otero. Only in the last working days of December did a communication arrive stating that the project had not been evaluated because the Ministry was drafting new regulations for postgraduate programs. “They told us they had not read the project and were not going to read it because they were putting together a new regulation,” recounted the coordinator. A few years ago, we managed to get our cohorts doubled and we started to receive between one hundred and one hundred and twenty people per year, but even so, many people are left out,” explained Otero. Uncertainty and precariousness In addition to the current uncertainty, the teaching team denounces that the postgraduate program has been operating for years in institutional and labor precarious conditions. “Every one or two years we have to present the project again for it to be evaluated, approved, and only then is a resolution signed that authorizes its operation,” explained the coordinator. This dynamic has generated multiple conflicts over time. If it is not opened, the City of Buenos Aires Autonomous City (CABA) would be left without public and free teacher training in Comprehensive Sex Education. The continuity of the program depends on resolutions that the Ministry of Education must renew periodically. “The situation is quite precarious and unstable because the postgraduate program does not have guaranteed continuity. Teachers from the CSE postgraduate program of the historic porteño teacher-training college denounced that the Ministry of Education of the City has not yet approved the 2026-2027 cohort. “There are many people who know us for our history and our graduates who are in schools implementing CSE, but there are also those who know us for the continuous conflicts we have had because from time to time we don't know if we are going to start or not,” they stated. In some academic cycles, the teaching team had to start classes without institutional guarantees. By ANRed The teaching team of the “Postgraduate Specialization in Teaching at the Higher Level in Comprehensive Sex Education” of the Dr. Joaquín V. González Teacher Training Institute declared a state of alert due to the lack of decisions from the Ministry of Education of the City of Buenos Aires regarding the opening of the 2026-2027 cohort. “Every year, many more people apply than can be admitted. For years, the space had few spots and only recently did they manage to expand the offer.
