📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC) published, this Monday, May 18, Ordinance No. 421/2026, which provides for the National Policy for Inclusive Special Education (Pneei). The document structures policy governance and operationalizes the National Inclusive Special Education Network (Reneei), establishing competencies and forms of composition for each of its structuring axes. The ordinance also reaffirms that inclusive special education must occur across all levels, stages and modalities, in order to guarantee access, retention, participation and learning.
Read more: MEC presents National Inclusive Special Education Network
With Reneei, the MEC creates a well-formulated and detailed design of the actions that will be adopted within Pneei. Ultimately, it aims to ensure the right to education without discrimination and based on equal opportunities for students. The network will consist of:
Intersectoral Coordination Strategy: governance network that will have 2,003 intersectoral articulators to help networks and schools with activities. They will act as MEC focal points in the territories, supporting the networks in the preparation and approval of policy regulations, in addition to promoting and coordinating training activities in each Federation unit (UF). There will also be support for the National Union of Municipal Education Directors (Undime) and state education departments in planning and implementing the action plan for the training of managers and teachers, among others.
Reference Centers for Continuing and In-Service Training: there will be 27 centers, one in each UF, which will offer in-service training on an ongoing basis to meet the specificities of each states networks.
Inclusive Special Education Observatory: will be carried out through a partnership with a federal university and must be linked to training centers and the governance network.
Technical Support and Material Accessibility Centers: responsible for producing accessible materials, assistive technologies and guidance from education professionals. These centers were already provided for in legislation.
National Self-Defense Network against Ableism: comprises a movement led by self-defense men and women, members of organizations representing people with intellectual disabilities, Down syndrome and autism, with the purpose of carrying out collective awareness actions on combating ableism in the school context.
Specialized Educational Service (AEE) - The ordinance also points out that AEE must be offered, in a complementary and supplementary manner to the schooling process, to students in public education networks at all levels, stages and educational modalities. To this end, the objectives, structure and organization of curricular guidelines, political-pedagogical projects and the distribution of school times and spaces in different contexts must be observed.
Investments - Since 2023, the MEC has invested in strengthening inclusive special education. In total, R2.3 billion was allocated to structuring the AEE and for teacher training.
Also noteworthy is the PDDE Equity Multifunctional Resources Room (SRM), which transferred investments of R654.8 million between 2023 and 2025, with a forecast of another R204 million in 2026.
Pneei - The National Policy for Inclusive Special Education, established through Decrees no 12,686/2025 and no 12,773/2025, aims to reaffirm the commitment to an inclusive educational system at all levels, stages and modalities, ensuring the right to quality education and conditions of equality with other students. APnee defines special education as a modality offered in the regular education network, transversal to all levels, stages and modalities, for students with disabilities, autistic students and students with high abilities or giftedness, ensuring educational resources and services to support, complement and supplement the schooling process.
