Bring Quality Education to 50MM Brazilian Children

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?

Thank you!
Todos Pela Educação (All For Education)

As all students of the world, we’ve spent part of the first quarter of 2020 at home. But even from a distance we stay committed and working for Public Basic Education. We’ve kept what we had planned for 2020 and incorporated initiatives to our work that would support educational government and families in face of the new coronavirus pandemic. To qualify the public debate, giving to Education the importance it deserves, we’ve took part in one of the leading and most traditional Brazilian talk shows - TV Cultura’s Roda Viva - commenting on the current educational scenario and what to expect and how to prepare for the post-pandemic. Yet due to the crisis we’ve perform actions, studies, and partnerships to reduce the impact of school suspension and support the educational networks in the huge challenge of the return to classes.

As for the implementation of our action plan for 2020, we will remain committed to achieve our three strategic goals: to strengthen the Educação Já! agenda; to act directly to advance specific measures in the short term (prioritizing the financing and administration of Brazilian Education and initial teacher training); and to strengthen ourselves on an institutional basis.

With this planning, we started the year at full blast!

In March we’ve conducted the 1st Encontro Anual Educação Já!, which brought together more than 350 people in a remarkable day for the Brazilian Basic Education and for the history of Todos Pela Educação. Planned to have a 3-day duration, the event had to be canceled after a day due to suspected infection by Covid-19 of our CEO, which was later discarded.

The Brazilian Basic Education funding was another highlight. In addition to continued coordination alongside the legislative branch to make the main engine of Education even more robust, we’ve mobilized the society towards the issue through a campaign on social media and in the airport of the Brazilian capital, which made the theme reach more than 2 million people, including parliamentarians responsible for approving the proposal.

The first quarter of 2020 ended with massive challenges ahead due to the Covid-19 pandemic: to ensure, even at home, a quality Basic Education and equal opportunities for all children and young people of the country.

Together, even from a distance, we go further!

Thank you!