📋 Tender Overview
The Education Commission (CE) approved on Tuesday (5), in the first round, the project that prohibits discrimination between scholarship students and paying in private educational institutions (). He will still undergo a second vote on the commission, called the supplementary shift, before going to the House of Representatives.
The project requires private schools and colleges to offer scholarships to adopt inclusive policies to ensure equal conditions between scholarship students and paying. This includes participation in classes, shifts, units and common activities, as well as unrestricted access to the institutions structures.
The commission approved an alternative text by the rapporteur, Venetian Senator Vital do Rego (MDB-PB), which inserts the new rules in. Senator Alessandro Vieiras original text (MDB-SE) created a new law.
Discrimination
The project was motivated by allegations of segregation and discrimination against scholarship students reported in the press. Cases involve separation at different times, use of different uniforms, restrictions on access to common spaces and neglect of complaints of bullying.
According to Venetian, practices of this type hurt the constitutional principle of equal access and permanence in school. He recalls that the state already encourages the offer of scholarships through incentives, such as the University for All Program (ProUni), and that it is essential to ensure that these students are not marginalized in the school environment.
- The project ensures that non -paying students can remain in school with dignity, in a safe and free environment of prejudice, stigmas and discrimination - said the rapporteur.
Institutions that fail to comply with the rules may be punished. However, these punishments will be detailed in a future regulation.
Senate Agency (reproduction authorized by citation of the Senate Agency)
