The study of institutional communication and its relationship to educational policy has attracted increasing attention in Latin American communication research. State and semi-state media occupy a unique position in constructing meaning about public education, simultaneously performing journalistic and propaganda functions on behalf of the state (Raiter, 2002; Verón, 1987). In Argentina, the proliferation of official provincial news agencies over the last two decades has generated a peculiar media ecology: media outlets that report the news, but whose editorial line is dictated by the very institution they describe. The San Luis News Agency (ANSL) presents itself as "an official media outlet of the Provincial Government of San Luis," and its educational coverage constitutes a privileged corpus for examining how the state narrates its own actions.