Government rejects municipalities' request.
Says re-centralization of health and education funding would be a setback Documents menu Government rejects municipalities' request. Municipalities on average spent 30 percent of their budgets on education and 35 percent on health to cover the deficit, Duarte said. Should the situation recur this year, he said, municipalities will rebel and return health and education to the government. Chilean public education was passed on to the municipalities in 1982, and they now operate some 6,000 schools throughout the country. Most health clinics were localized in 1988.