📋 Tender Overview
State, Municipal and District schools can use the education salary resources in school feeding expenses. The authorization was signed this Thursday, June 12, by the Minister of State of Education, Camilo Santana, at the opening of the II Ordinary Meeting of 2025 of the National Council of Secretaries of Education (Consed), in Aracaju (SE). Educational salary is a social contribution intended for financing programs, projects and actions aimed at public basic education. For 2025, the distribution of R 21.3 billion in resources of the contribution to the state and municipal quota is planned. Net total collection is estimated at R 35.5 billion.
According to the minister, in the coming days, the acquisition of school uniform with the resources of the education salary will also be authorized. It is an important demand, including because we are encouraging the school full time. And we go beyond: in the coming days, we will include the acquisition of school uniform with these resources, said Santana.
Conseds meeting brings together, on June 12 and 13, secretaries of education of the 26 Brazilian and Federal District, as well as authorities and managers of municipal, state and federal public authorities; and state and federal representatives of the executive and the legislature. Among the main topics of the agenda are the National Education Plan (PNE), the teachers salary floor, as well as other strategic discussions for the advancement of public education.
The opening of the debates was also attended by the governor of Sergipe, Fabio Mitidieri; Consed President, Deputy Governor and Secretary of State for Education of Sergipe, Zezinho Sobral; of the President of the National Union of Municipal Directors of Education (Undime) and Municipal Leader of Ibaretama (CE), Alessio Costa Lima; and the representative of the National Council of Secretaries of Capital Education (Consec) and Secretary of Education of Recife (PE), Cecilia Cruz.
Legislation - For understanding the possibility of using resources, the MEC is based on the recognition of school food as a fundamental right, with support on constitutional, legal and international rules. The Federal Constitution and the National Education Guidelines and Bases Law (LDB) provide for the States obligation to guarantee supplementary food programs at all stages of basic education.
The National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE) and the Union is the normative, supplementary and coordination functions of the National School Feeding Program (PNAE), through financial assistance, made from the payment of 8 federal installments passed on to the entities.
In addition, it is up to the FNDE to provide technical assistance, from the preparation and publication of normative rules related to the program, as well as offer training and guidance to the entities and all involved in their execution.
In the Ministry of Education, the Secretariat of Basic Education (SEB) is responsible for the responsibility for monitoring, evaluation and maintenance of basic education, as well as support for the formulation and execution of financing policies, including the education salary.
EDUCATION SALARY-The social contribution is intended for the financing of programs, projects and actions aimed at public basic education, as provided for in SS 5 of art. 212 of the Federal Constitution of 1988. The resources of the are divided in quotas, the recipients being the Union, the States, the Federal District and the Municipalities. Of the total, 10% of net collection is destined to the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE), which applies them in the financing of projects, programs and actions of basic education. The other 90% of net revenues are unfolded and automatically made available to their recipients, in the form of two quotas: federal; and state and municipal.
The state and municipal quota is corresponding to 2/3 of the funds generated, by federated unit (State), which are credited, monthly and automatically, in specific bank accounts of the Secretariats of Education of the States, the Federal District and the Municipalities. The funds are distributed in the proportion of the number of enrollments, for the financing of programs, projects and actions aimed at Basic Education (art. 212, SS 6 of the CF).
