The project text should guide Brazilian educational policy for the next ten years
O The Senate approved this Wednesday (25) the new National Education Plan (PNE). The Project now goes on to be sanctioned by the Federal Government. Approved by the Education Committee, the project was determined by symbolic vote in the plenary.
According to Agência Senado, the text from the Executive Branch provides guidelines, goals and strategies that should guide Brazilian educational policy for the next ten years.
The new PNE was approved by the Chamber of Deputies last year, however, it was considered by the Senate only this year, therefore, the defined period will be from 2026 to 2035.
Plano
The new PNE contains 19 objectives, with monitoring of goals every two years in the areas of early childhood education, literacy, primary and secondary education, comprehensive education, diversity and inclusion, professional and technological education, higher education, structure and functioning of basic education.
One of the plan’s innovations was the expansion of public investments in educationcurrently estimated at 5.5% of gross domestic product (GDP), to 7.5% in seven years, reaching 10% at the end of the decade.
In literacy the goal is that 80% of children are literate at the end of the 2nd year of elementary school within five years and the same percentage for educational development in mathematics.
In the children’s area, an effort is expected to meet 100% of the demand for daycare centers and include 60% of children of up to three years until the end of the plan, with a reduction in inequalities in access.
All for Education
According to the independent basic education organization in Brazil, Todos Pela Educação, “the approval represents a fundamental milestone for Brazilian education and an important legacy of this legislature of the National Congress”.
In the view of Todos Pela Educação, the new PNE is an advance and has a high capacity to guide significant advances in Brazilian education over the next decade.
The text of the new PNE “deepens the focus on educational quality, which came from the original Bill presented by the Federal Government”, explains the organization.
The manager of Educational Policies at Todos Pela Educação, Manoela Miranda, said that the new plan has a high capacity for “guide significant advances in the next decade”.
The PNE presents specific goals with the percentage of students who can reach the expected learning levels, in addition to clear objectives for eliminating the most critical points in the learning process.
In relation to the context of educational inequality, Manoela says that the second major advance is focused on equalizing this point. “The introduction of explicit targets for reducing inequality between social groups is fundamental”, he explains.
The third major advance is the “important monitoring instruments that can lead to greater effectiveness of the PNE”, such as the specific educational goals focused on the reality of each Brazilian state and municipality.
Todos Pela Educação completed by saying that the PNE will only be effective if there is political commitment to follow and persevere in educational evolution. “The development, implementation and support of structuring educational policies that lead us to achieving the proposed goals”, added Manoela.
