Bring Quality Education to 50MM Brazilian Children

August 2020 will be marked in the history of Brazilian Education: we have made a permanent education funding policy focused on reducing inequalities and encouraging the advancement of public educational quality. A victory of Basic Education, a victory for all of us and also of All for Education which, over the last 3 years, advocates for its approval in the National Congress and works intensely to qualify the debate - by conducting studies and technical surveys, analyses and simulations.

Alongside this great achievement, other important themes emerge on the horizon close to Basic Education, still in reflection of the pandemic. This year, Brazilians will elect representatives of the municipal Executive Branch and Legislative Branch. If the exchange of public management is a challenging scenario for educational policies, the difficulties of the transition of the new governments will be raised to another level, given the effects of the crisis caused by Covid-19.

Therefore, qualifying the theme of Education in the 2020 elections is urgent and impels us since August. In addition to providing educational data overviews by states and capitals, and state analyses of the Brazilian education quality, we launched the Education Now Municipalities initiative, which comprises different actions: a technical document, which provides policy recommendations to address the emergency challenges of returning to classes and boosting the quality of Education in the period between 2021-2024; an educational data panel that allows the download of customized reports by municipality; a series of online interviews with candidates running for mayor of some of the largest capitals of different regions of the Country; and a webinar discussing Education in elections with a minister of the Brazilian Supreme Court.

The year 2020 is almost over and, even with the undetermined effects due to closing all schools for a record time, we were able to carry out important actions for Brazilian Education. Your help has allowed us to raise and put on the agenda the debate on public education for what really matters: improving the quality of education based on scientific evidence in Brazil and abroad. We will continue united by the challenge of ensuring Basic Education with quality and equal opportunities for all Brazilian children and young people.

Together we go further!
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With your help, Brazil will now have more resources destined to Education of the poorest students

The year 2020 has put to the test the ability of reinvention and quick readjustment of routes for everyone. There are thousands of teachers at home teaching as they learn and millions of students having to give a new meaning to their relationship with the learning process. In Todos Pela Educação, the quick adaptation to this unprecedented scenario was no different. Convinced that the price of immobilism means the expansion of inequality for thousands of students, we’ve added to our planning for the year a new axis of actions which aim to contribute directly to handling the educational challenges brought by the pandemic.

Thus, the initiatives of the last quarter dialogued with the emergencies, such as remote education and returning to school, but also with the historical challenges of Education, such as the intense advocacy of Todos Pela Educação for a new financing policy for Basic Education, an action that resulted in its approval in the House of Representatives at the end of July. And look: after years of studies, political incidence and mobilization of key actors by Todos Pela Educação, the Brazilian National Congress enacted this mechanism so important for our public education already in August.

Moreover, one of the great highlights of the last period was the online meeting of Todos Pela Educação “Basic Education in the new scenario: adaptation and transformation”. The initiative, which mobilized an important part of the educational public debate to follow discussions about the urgencies of the current context and, at the same time, on the structural changes that become even more necessary, was record of audience on our YouTube channel, reaching an audience of over 60 thousand people so far. In addition to gathering prominent names to discuss Education in the face of the pandemic, the meeting articulated the main topics of interest and studies carried out by Todos Pela Educação during the period: the technical notes on the challenges of remote education and returning to school, as well as the study on the fiscal impact of the pandemic on the educational networks.

Despite the challenges, Brazilian Public Basic Education has had a great victory in last months with a new Fundeb (Fund for the Maintenance and Development for the Basic Education), but the struggle continues; there is still much to do to ensure a quality education and equal opportunities for all children and young people in the Country, especially now that the pandemic of the new coronavirus has deepened the inequalities - which were already huge - of Brazil.

Let’s do it together?

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Todos Pela Educação (All For Education)