📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC) published, on Wednesday, July 30, definitions of indicators and methodologies for the distribution of the resources of the annual value per student by result (VAAR) through the resolutions and, the Secretariat of Basic Education (SEB). The measure was approved by the Intergovernmental Commission for Financing for Quality Basic Education (CIF), a collegiate formed by representatives of the Union, the States and the Municipalities.
Resolution No. 16 approves the calculation methodologies of socioeconomic level indicators (NSE) and availability of resources (DREC), as well as establishing the maintenance of differences and considerations related to steps, modalities, duration of the journey and the types of basic education establishment adopted in 2025.
Resolution No. 17, in turn, deals specifically with the measurement of conditionalities II and III and the learning and care indicators, in 2025, for the distribution of the Union supplementary resources to the exercise of 2026. In addition, it maintains the methodology of calculating the indicator of early childhood education.
Conditionalities II (80% student participation in Saeb), III (reduction of racial and socioeconomic inequalities), the indicator of care (reduction of school abandonment) and learning are measured by INEP and had their methodologies maintained in relation to the previous cycle. The municipality discloses the results of calculations of previous years.
The methodology of measurement of other conditionalities (I, IV and V), in turn, had already been approved and published by MEC in June. Proof of these conditionalities is through registration of documents and information at SIMEC until August 31, 2025.
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The school network should be enabled in all conditionalities and advance at at least one of the indicators to ensure receipt of supplementation-vaar. The Secretariat of Basic Education clarifies doubts and offers technical support to federated entities through WhatsApp (61) 2022-2066 or email.
FUNDEB-O consisting of resources from taxes and constitutional transfers of federated entities linked to education, as well as the Union, through the complementations Student Fundeb Value (VAAF), Student-Ano Value (VAAT) and VAAR.
All FUNDEB is somehow focused on reducing inequalities, but VAAR complementation has been created as an induction mechanism for improving management and recognizing results of reduced educational inequalities.
In order to receive the resources of VAAR complementation, education networks must comply with the conditionalities of management improvement I, IV and V, analyzed by SEB/MEC; and Conditionalities II and III, analyzed by the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anisio Teixeira (Inep), a municipality linked to MEC; As well as advance in care and learning indicators, defined and calculated by Inep.
Conditionalities represent the first part of the analysis process to certify if a network is qualified to receive the vaar complementation feature. They are part of a set of conditions related to management processes aimed at impacting educational quality and reducing inequalities. Networks must meet all conditionalities to move on to the second part of the analysis process, where the occurrence will be verified in improving the indicators.
MEC Communication Advisory, with information from SEB
