📋 Tender Overview
The Minister of Education, Camilo Santana, participated, this Friday, December 12th, in Maceio, in the 4th Ordinary Meeting of 2025 of the National Council of Education Secretaries (Consed). State education secretaries from across the country, technicians and partners participated to discuss strategies, advances and challenges common to education networks. The meeting aimed to coordinate the federation and define a convergent national agenda in basic education, seeking to guarantee the quality, equity and continuity of public policies in all states.
Camilo Santana highlighted the importance of the collaboration regime between the MEC, states and municipalities for the implementation of educational policies. The minister spoke about the positive results already obtained with the programs, and.
As one of the main policies of his administration, the minister shared that Pe-de-Meia was the result of an experience started in Alagoas, which guaranteed young people to remain in school. Created to reduce high school student dropouts, which reached 480,000 young people per year, the program has already managed to reduce school dropout rates by half. This result is also the result of the work of the state secretaries. These are important advances, the result of policies, and the fruits of this federative integration, he noted.
Financing - One of the issues highlighted at the meeting was the expansion of education resources. We have allocated around R700 million, within the New PAC, for works, be it daycare centers, full-time schools, school transport, new federal institutes, important works in our universities. But we also have important programs, investments in Pe-de-Meia, in literacy, in integral education, in connectivity, in Mais Professores. In short, a set of important actions, he highlighted.
He pointed out that the department is significantly expanding the resources of the Fund for Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and Valorization of Education Professionals (Fundeb). Brazil needs to move faster and will only be able to do this with more resources. The idea is that something around R70 billion will come from the Unions supplement to Fundeb, added to resources from states and municipalities, to strengthen this collaboration regime, he stated.
SNE and PNE - Santana celebrated the approval by the National Congress of the National Education System (SNE), which had been in progress in the house for 16 years. The SNE sets standards for cooperation between the Union, states, municipalities and the Federal District for the elaboration and implementation of educational policies -- and the PNE 2024-2034.
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I always say that it is the SUS of education, which will define the guidelines and the role of federated entities in Brazilian education. We will now have a system in which we will be able to have information about students, from the child in daycare to the adult in higher education, in real time, across the entire Brazilian network, he said.
In his presentation, the minister also highlighted the unanimous approval of the new National Education Plan (PNE), by the Chambers Special Education Committee. The PNE will establish the goals for the next 10 years of what we want for daycare, full-time, professional education and higher education for the country. Consed has an important role, because it is the secretaries of all Brazilian states who define the implementation of policies, he considered.
The program continued with internal debates between state secretaries, contributing to the consolidation of guidelines that directly impact millions of students and education professionals.
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