After indigenous pressure, Governor signed a commitment term for a new career plan for public teachers
The Governor of Pará, (MDB), decided to revoke the Lei 10.820/2014which deals with the career of teachers and the state school system, after resistance from the category and indigenous populations.
This Wednesday (5.FEV.2025), Barbalho signed a commitment term for the preparation of a new statute of teaching and plan of positions, careers and salary of public professionals of Paraense Basic Education. A working group should be formed with government representatives, teachers and traditional populations.
With the measure, the governor intends to end weeks of mobilizations against the new legislation. Seduc (Secretariat of Education) of Pará has been occupied by protesters since January 14.
In the case of indigenous people, the biggest concern is with what they claim to be the replacement of face -to -face teaching with distance learning In some remote regions of Pará, impairing the access of several tribes to education. Quilombola people entities also joined the movement.
The Sintepp (Union of Workers and Workers in Public Education of the State of Pará) states that the law ends the automatic career progression and, without discussion, promotes harmful changes in the journey and remuneration of teachers. The category has been on strike since January 23.
Another issue that motivates the articulation is the withdrawal of Sintepp representatives from the Permanent Evaluation Committee, which would end up giving the Holder of the Education Folder Rossieli Soares, more decision -making power. The strikers ask for the exoneration of the secretary.
The Government of Pará had been defending the legislation, which was approved by the Pará Legislative Assembly at the end of last year and sanctioned in December. State management denies that there is any threat to the access of traditional populations to education, stating that there is a communication problem around the subject.
According to Sintepp, an understanding of the elaboration of another law, replacing the current one, had been reached on January 31, in a meeting between representatives of teachers and the government. At the time, the government pledged to “build a new legislation, making the law (current) unknown,” according to a statement issued by the union.
Supremo
Barbalho’s decision also occurs after the APIB (Association of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples) has proposed an action in the Supreme Court (STF), asking that the Para law will be considered unconstitutional. The rapporteur, Minister Cármen Lúcia, gave five days to the government’s demonstration.
The MPF (Federal Public Prosecution Service) also defeated the Ministry of Education for the federal government to interfere with the controversy. In a statement issued in January, the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples reported closely monitoring the situation, having sent representatives to follow the negotiations in Pará.
In a statement, the ministry said it acts “In mediation and supply of subsidies so that any proposed solution strengthens indigenous education and ensures compliance with indigenous rights to specific and differentiated education”..
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