📋 Tender Overview
Experts gathered at the Education Commission (CE) defended the Union supplement to Fundeb, but asked for attention to the criteria for distributing resources and their application in states and municipalities. The public hearing, held on Tuesday (16), is part of the cycle of evaluation debates of the Fund for Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and valorization of education professionals, Fundeb, one of the goals of CE for this year.
Enhancement
Intended to supplement by 23% the global revenue of educational funds by 2026, Fundeb has as components the annual value per student of state and Federal District (VAAF) networks; The total annual value per student (VAAT), considering all education revenues; and the value student year result (VAAR), which benefits improvements in educational and management indicators.
Analyzing these components, Maria Teresa Gonzaga Alves, Director of Educational Studies of the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anisio Teixeira (Inep), highlighted the strategic role of her institute in the assessment of these indices. She stressed the novelty of Vaar, launched in 2023, and the constant improvement of her criteria.
- Other data and indicators within Inep have added to the importance of the school census [...]. Inep started to build indicators of kindergarten, with socioeconomic level [...] and especially the indicators of VAAR.
Maria Teresa Gonzaga Alves considers that, with the establishment of partnerships and the quality of her technical staff, Inep has been able to account for its many attributions. In your opinion, however, the data available for the formation of the indicators are still below the legal requirements. Among other problems the Basic Education Evaluation System (SAEB) makes evaluations every two years, while the distribution of Fundeb resources is made annually.
Classroom
Patrick Tranjan, vice-president of the National Council of Capital Education Secretaries (Consec), said it was no use transferring resources if there is no guarantee that effective practices are exercised in the classroom. He considers that the conception of Fundeb is difficult to understand for the vast majority of sector leaders in states and municipalities.
- It was unanimous the widespread ignorance that it was possible to access resources for results [...]. This ends up generating [...] [Use of] wrong resources [...] and does not really encourage networks to seek inequalities reducing ignorance of what has to be done.
President of CE, senator Professor Dorinha Seabra (Uniao-TO) defended the project of the National Education System, mentioning the great complexity of state and municipal education networks and the difficulty of managing resource allocation.
- Our expectation is that the national system can help in this organization. But it is not a magic either.
Pre-salt resources
General coordinator of the North Northeast Front for Education, Anizio Santos de Melo said that the guarantee of funding as permanent policy is fundamental for quality education. He greeted progress in the new Fundeb, but cited a report by the Federal Court of Audit (TCU) which points to misuse of pre-salt royalties that should be destined for education.
-The pre-salt bottom is being used for various issues. I wanted to dialogue with the representatives of the municipalities [...], who have a lot of voracity in relation to resources, but have a lot of slowness, or lack of commitment, where these resources should be applied.
Finally, Manoela Miranda, Educational Policy Manager of the Todos for Education Movement, also pointed out a mismatch between legal requirements and data availability. She defended an observation about the effects of the attachment of Fundeb funds on the improvement of educational rates.
- It is very important to use evidence and, in fact, to understand in recent years if they are generating the expected effect, as provided by law.
Senate Agency (reproduction authorized by citation of the Senate Agency)
