📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC) participated, this Thursday, May 22, the public hearing of the Special Commission that analyzes the new National Education Plan (PNE). The objective of the meeting was to discuss the goals of the plan on full -time education. The MEC, since 2023, coordinates throughout the country what fosters the creation of full -time enrollment in all stages and modalities of basic education.
The debate was requested by deputies Adriana Ventura (Novo-SP) and Moses Rodrigues (Uniao/CE). The Commission discusses Bill 2614/24, which deals with the institution of PNE 2024/2034. In the project, there are 18 objectives to be met in the areas of Early Childhood Education, Literacy, Elementary and High School, Integral Education, Diversity and Inclusion, Vocational and Technological Education, Higher Education, Structure and Functioning of Basic Education.
Goal 6 of the current National Education Plan, which deals with the offer of full -time education in public schools in Brazil, will be expanded by 10% with the approval of the new PNE: the minimum vacancies offered in extended journey goes from 40% to 50% of the total. In addition, with the new standard, at least 25% of students of basic education should be served by integral education. This modality not only increases the time of stay in school, but makes the curriculum thought to promote the integral formation of children and adolescents.
At the hearing, the director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Maintenance of the MEC Basic Education Secretariat (SEB), Valdoir Pedro Wathier, addressed the goal of expanding full -time integral education, relating this challenge to the goals regarding infrastructure, training and public funding of Brazilian education. According to him, the advance depends on a collective effort between Union, States and Municipalities.
The director reported that, in this sense, SEB is working with the National Education Council (CNE) to define quality parameters for full -time integral education. However, he noted that Brazil is a huge country and it is necessary to look at the peculiarities of each region.
It has a reference that we use a lot to know the financing capacity of each network, which is VAAT, the value student total year, and if we take the latest values, it varies, for municipalities, just over R 3,000 to R 83 thousand. To enable the target of expansion of the school day, to enable integral education, it will be necessary to raise the quality of infrastructure and training, because the schools do not have with schools, many times they do not have with schools with school Appropriate spaces for full time, and not all teachers were formed by or for integral education, he said.
Another point addressed at the hearing was the issue of school infrastructure to serve full -time education students. Wathier considered in his explanation that to improve the quality of education, the plan really needs to be national, mobilize the collaboration regime between Union, states and municipalities and rely on the collaboration of society.
Participants - The public hearing was also attended by specialists and doctors in education of federal university; by Jonathan Almada, director of the Innovation Center for Excellence in Public Policy; Sonia Dias, Development and Solutions Manager of the Itau Foundation; de Raiana Ribeiro, program director of the City Apprentice School - City and; Marcos Ragazzi, president of the Brazilian Association of Free Initiative Basic Education; by Ana Paula Pereira, executive director of the Dream Grande Institute; and Alecio Costa Lima, president of the National Union of Municipal Education Leaders.
