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The Minister of Education, Amadeu Cruz, assured that the Basic Schools of Cabeca Fundao and Tinteira, in Santa Catarina do Fogo, will receive interventions very soon. The information was released on Monday (9), as part of a visit by the governor to schools in the municipality, as part of the monitoring program for the 2025/2026 school year. Although the Santa Catarina do Fogo school park is in a relatively good state of conservation, the Minister of Education revealed that dialogue with the local City Council made it possible to identify priorities that require immediate intervention. Among them, the Cabeca Fundao school stands out, which, despite being rehabilitated a few years ago, now needs a new structural embrace, already counting on financing guaranteed by Luxembourg. The governor also assured that the Tinteira school and the regions kindergartens will also deserve special attention, also extending the improvement plan to the local high school. For this secondary education infrastructure, Amadeu Cruz confirmed that, thanks to Chinese and Luxembourg cooperation, the objective is to provide the high school with an auditorium, in addition to new classrooms and laboratories. The Ministers visit to the municipality began with an institutional meeting with the mayor of Santa Catarina, Manuel Teixeira. At the meeting, Amadeu Cruz shared the results of the educational sector in the municipality. At a national level, we have improved a lot in terms of reducing the school dropout rate. We have also improved in the achievement rate: now, in the first quarter of 2025-2026, we have rates, in the first cycle, around 92%; in the second cycle, around 85%; and, in secondary education, around 91% of positive results at a national level. Here in Santa Catarina do Fogo, we are above average, with 92% in primary education (1st cycle), but we are a little lower in the 2nd cycle. It is necessary to improve learning and assessment in the second cycle. Amadeu Cruz shared with the mayor of Santa Catarina do Fogo, the concern regarding the implementation of the PCFR with regard to monitors and early childhood educators. we maintain a cooperative dialogue, of solidarity and institutional loyalty, because together we can do more and better for the education and development of our country, he said. As part of this mission, the ministerial delegation visited the Escola de Cha das Caldeiras, an infrastructure that stands as the ultimate symbol of resilience and inclusion that guide the current mandate. The transition from a precarious scenario in 2021, where students attended classes in a garage, to an infrastructure rebuilt from scratch and inaugurated in the academic year of 2022/2023, reflects the political decision to accelerate the integral quality of the educational system. More than a building, the work materializes confidence in quality education, demonstrating that overcoming and inclusion are the fundamental pillars for the development of the most challenging communities. 2025/2026 on other islands. According to the governor, this is intended to witness the great advances achieved jointly in the educational sector. we have manuals up to the 11th grade and we will have manuals for the 1st to 12th year of schooling. We improved most school infrastructures, reinforced school social action, as well as the issue of digital transition in the Cape Verdean educational system. We installed more technological laboratories in schools and reinforced school social action, he argued. On the first day of the official visit to Fogo, Amadeu Cruz was at the Cabeca Fundao Basic School, the Cha das Caldeiras Educational Complex and the Eduardo Gomes Miranda Educational Complex. In the latter he held hearings with teachers from the municipality.
