📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC) celebrates School Day, celebrated in the country on Sunday, March 15, with a series of pedagogical policies in schools to guarantee the right to quality and equitable basic education for all Brazilians.
Among the policies undertaken by the department is the promotion of school life and safe environments conducive to learning. After a year of the Brazilian Governments decision to restrict the use of cell phones in schools, the results are visible. The measure, adopted to protect students, reinforced the focus on learning -- cell phones and technology in the classroom began to be used solely as pedagogical tools.
The National Survey - 1st year of Law No. 15,100/2025 seeks to measure these advances. The study, with more than 8 thousand public and private basic education schools, in all regions of Brazil, is already underway and will analyze how the rule that regulates the use of personal portable electronic devices in basic education schools has been interpreted and implemented in education networks across the country.
Read more: National MEC survey evaluates impact of cell phone law
To ensure that the pedagogical effort is accompanied by the necessary infrastructure, the federal government significantly expanded connectivity in public schools, which increased from 45% in 2023 to 70% in 2026. Today, 96 thousand schools already have adequate internet parameters for educational use.
And this is just one example of the evolution of education in Brazil in recent years. Since 2023, the Government of Brazil has delivered more than 2,250 school units, daycare centers and sports courts. Works that were suspended were resumed and more than 6 thousand are in progress.
Full-time education - According to data from the 2025 School Census, one in four basic education students is enrolled in a full-time school, exceeding the target established by the National Education Plan (PNE) for the teaching modality. To guarantee complete training, the MEC promoted full-time education policies and, today, 91% of Brazilian cities have already registered their own initiatives in the area. In 2023, the number was just 17%.
School meals - In school meals, the result in three years is significant: the MEC made a new adjustment in 2026, totaling a 55% increase in the budget for the public education network. Furthermore, more than 240 million books are already arriving in the countrys public schools through the National Book and Teaching Material Program (PNLD).
Read more: Resolution published that readjusts transfers per student to Pnae
Literacy - Another highlight is the implementation of the National Literacy Child Commitment. Before the policy, only 36% of children were literate on time. In 2024, the literacy rate has practically doubled, with 60% of children reading and writing at the standard expected for their age.
Pe-de-Meia - One of the hallmarks of this administration was the creation of Pe-de-Meia, which supports attendance and approval in public secondary education, with R200 per month for the student. For young people in the program who passed the year, the installment of R1,000 will soon be deposited into the account.
The program already reaches almost 6 million students and is starting to show concrete results. School dropout among young people fell by half, as did school delay, with more students at the appropriate age for the grade.
Teacher appreciation - The leap in quality in Brazilian education in recent years can also be seen through teacher appreciation actions. Teachers returned to work in 2026 with real gains in the readjustment of the teaching floor and benefits linked to the Brazilian National Teaching Card. Among them are more than 9 thousand free training courses, computer vouchers, scholarships for undergraduate students, through Pe-de-Meia Licenciaturas, and exclusive conditions in accommodation, services, pedagogical tools and technology products in 45 companies.
Equity - There was also investment in the inclusion of low-income, black, mixed-race, indigenous, quilombola and people with disabilities students. Special education enrollment has nearly doubled in the last three years.
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