Counselor Fabio Camargo, from TCE-PR (Tribunal de Contas do Paraná), summoned the state’s Secretary of Education, Roni Miranda, to provide clarifications on the , which .
Last Thursday (14), Camargo’s decision determined the immediate suspension of new hires carried out by the Department of Education within the scope of the program. The precautionary measure will be analyzed by the TCE plenary next Wednesday (27).
The suspension request was made in, which argued that there were possible irregularities in the .
Camargo wants points such as the use of the accreditation modality, the absence of budgetary forecast, the lack of preliminary technical study, the absence of justifications for the technical requirements presented and the lack of supervision of internal control bodies to be clarified.
In the decision on the subpoena, the counselor states that the program does not “demonstrate the guarantee of adequate food for students, a policy aimed at the most needy and, mainly, there is an invasion of the pedagogical aspect, which cannot be transferred to the private sector .”
The advisor also states that the private sector seeks profit and that this is incompatible with the public sector, which has the “purpose of serving everyone without distinction”.
“And it is in this line that the selection of schools ‘chosen’ for the government program is shown, as a rule, located in central areas, in places with low maintenance costs, being notoriously those that serve business profit, a factor that proves the lack of stability of the program and its unfeasibility for low-density schools.”
Camargo also states that another sensitive and possible point of damage to the public treasury is salary equality, as it is not clear how each professional is paid and how equal they are.
“In short, we have an affront to equal conditions; fraud in entering the public service through a public competition, with the use of a hybrid system to perform the same function being incompatible, under penalty of damage to the public treasury; outsourcing of pedagogical system, an act inherent to the Public Power; lack of guarantee for the provision of adequate food to students; incompatibility of profit, a factor inherent to private activity, to the Public Education system”, he adds.
When contacted, the State Department of Education said it was “convinced that the School Partner project represents an immeasurable gain in the pedagogical quality of students” and that it will appeal the monocratic decision to the Court of Auditors itself.
The secretariat also argues that the program was “created to optimize the administrative and infrastructure management of schools through partnerships with institutions specializing in educational management.”
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