📋 Tender Overview
The Senate Plenary approved, this Tuesday (7), the project that creates the National Education System (SNE). There were 70 votes in favor and only one abstention. From Senator Flavio Arns (PSB-PR) and reported by Senator Professor Dorinha Seabra (Uniao-TO), the text now goes to the Presidency of the Republic for sanction ().
The matter had already been published in March 2022. It was then sent to the Chamber of Deputies, where it was debated over three years and on September 3rd. As it was modified by the deputies, the text had to be analyzed again by the Senate.
-- Just as we have the SUS, which organizes the health agenda, the SNE will organize basic education. With this text, we take a very important step towards the advancement of Brazilian education -- noted the rapporteur.
The proposal establishes cooperation between the Union, states, Federal District and municipalities in the formulation and integrated implementation of educational policies. The idea is to universalize access to basic education and guarantee its quality standards and adequate physical, technological and personnel infrastructure for all public schools.
Also among the objectives of the SNE are: eradicating illiteracy; ensure the equalization of educational opportunities; articulate the levels, stages and modalities of teaching; comply with education plans at all levels of the Federation and value education professionals, among other actions. The text also presents provisions focused on the specific conditions of indigenous and quilombola education.
Another point of the project is the student quality cost (CAQ), which will be used as a reference for investment per student in basic education, considering the budget of each federated entity, local needs and specificities, the Unions supplements to the Basic Education Maintenance and Development Fund (Fundeb) and other federal and state supplements that may be instituted.
Education
The president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre, stated that the matter is relevant and that the education agenda is essential to Brazils agenda. Senator Teresa Leitao (PT-PE), the birthday boy of the day, said that she was receiving a gift with the approval of the matter. According to Teresa, the SNE is a project of political and strategic intentionality.
-- Today is a great day for education advocates. We want to share this victory with all of Brazilian society -- said the senator, who is president of the Education and Culture Commission (CE).
Senator Flavio Arns praised the work of the rapporteur of the matter in the Chamber, deputy Rafael Brito (MDB-AL), who followed the vote in the Senate Plenary. Flavio Arns said that the debate, over the years, improved the text of the project. In the senators view, the SNE is a prerequisite for the National Education Plan (PNE) to be properly executed.
-- The approval of the matter is an important moment for Brazil and for Brazilian education. We remain firm on this journey - declared the senator.
Chamber
Senator Professor Dorinha Seabra said that the replacement of the Chamber of Deputies improves, in several aspects and consistently, the text approved by the Senate in 2022. According to the rapporteur, one of the most important improvements is the one that gives the decisions of the inter-management committees the character of guiding the Union, states, DF and municipalities in the formulation of their educational policies.
The project foresees the creation of the Tripartite Inter-Management Commission for Education (Cite), a nationwide body, which will be responsible for negotiation and coordination between managers at the three levels of government (federal, state and municipal). It also provides for bipartite inter-management commissions for education (cibes), subnational bodies, responsible for negotiation and agreement between education managers in states and municipalities.
According to the project, Cite and cibes are the forums responsible for defining parameters, educational guidelines and operational, administrative and financial aspects of the collaboration regime, with a focus on the coordinated management of educational policy.
The rapporteur also pointed out that, under the terms of the Chambers substitute, the logic of the SNE is no longer structured around instruments, according to the text approved by the Senate, but around five integrating functions: democratic governance, planning, national quality standards, financing and evaluation.
-- The transformation of this proposition into law will certainly represent a significant advance for Brazilian education -- stated the rapporteur.
Infrastructure
The Chambers text also innovated, according to the senator, by establishing the National Education Data Infrastructure (Inde), which is a democratic governance mechanism for the SNE to support the planning and management processes of educational policies, as well as the fulfillment of the systems objectives.
Inde will combine information from educational establishments and systems. Municipalities, states, the Federal District and the Union have their own education systems, whichthey will be able to talk to each other. On the other hand, municipalities will not be required to integrate with state systems.
The approved substitute also creates the students unique national identifier (Inue), linked to the students Individual Taxpayer Registry (CPF). Inue will be mandatory for use in all education systems, with the aim of ensuring the interoperability of administrative records -- that is, schools at different levels and locations will have access to student information.
-- The creation of Inde and this unique national identifier for students also seems to us to be a good measure, as it will allow the different systems to talk and the data can be read together, facilitating the prospecting of scenarios and supporting decision-making and the effectiveness of public policies in a more consistent way -- highlighted the rapporteur.
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