📋 Tender Overview
To discuss the creation of the salary floor for professionals called non-teachers of Basic Education Schools, the Ministry of Education (MEC) participated on Tuesday, May 20, a public hearing in the Chamber of Deputies, in Brasilia (DF). Held by the Education and Administration and Public Service committees, the meeting discussed the, which establishes that the value of the new floor corresponds to 75% of the teaching wage floor with high school formation, normal modality. The proposal has already been approved by two commissions and needs to be analyzed by three others.
The General Coordinator of Valorization of Education Professionals, the Secretariat of Intersectoral Articulation and the Education Systems (SASE), Maria Stela Reis, represented the MEC at the hearing. The issue of education employees really needs to be faced from the point of view of institutionalization and the incorporation of rights, such as public policy. The bill is very relevant, because it meets this necessary valorization of non -teaching education professionals, he said.
According to her, Article 206 of the Federal Constitution establishes the principles that should guide education in Brazil. Among them, the appreciation of education professionals with career plans, as well as the national professional salary for public school education professionals. She also cited the National Education Guidelines and Bases Law (LDB), Law No. 9,394/96, which defines who are considered basic school education professionals, such as highly or higher -level teachers; Education workers with pedagogy diploma; and others with technical or higher education in related areas.
All this constitutional and legal framework is there to support that there is a salary floor for these professionals and is more than relevant that this bill will be approved. From the point of view of MEC, the opinions we did through the process of the bill, we were favorable, he explained.
In addition to the presence of parliamentarians, the hearing also had Heleno Araujo, president of the National Confederation of Education Workers (CNTE); Robson Lustosa, representative of support staff professionals and member of the First Education Collective; Norma dos Santos, President of the Sao Paulo Municipal Public Education Education Specialists Union (Sinesp); Joabson Leite, representative of the Union of Educational Administrative Technicians of Rondonia (Sintae/RO); Elicleia Lopes, president of the Association of Administrative Educational Servants of the State of Amazonas (Avamseg/AM); and Chico Poli, president of the Official Teaching Education Specialists Union.
