Senators approve report on impacts of pandemic on education

In the Senate, the Temporary Subcommittee for Monitoring Education in the Pandemic approved, this Thursday (8), the report by Senator Flávio Arns (Podemos-PR). The collegiate was created in 2021 to assess and monitor the impacts of covid-19 on education and also propose recommendations to recover education systems impacted by the period. The text, with 240 pages, brings 30 recommendations built from 20 public hearings, held over more than a year with the participation of government representatives and public and private institutions linked to education, in addition to teachers, economists, workers and members of organized civil society entities. Among the main suggestions. that the Ministries of Education and Economy recompose the basic education budget, which has suffered cuts in recent years. The document also recommends support for programs that make it possible to improve the infrastructure and connectivity of schools, in addition to the approval of bills by the National Congress. Another recommendation made is support for state, municipal and Federal District networks in adopting program methodologies developed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) – Active School Search, Trajectories of School Success and Education that Protects – as a way of bring children and teenagers back to school. Also on the list of suggestions is the creation of a publicly accessible database to map and share experiences of successful educational public policies, especially those related to the implementation of full-time education, recomposition of learning, active search and combating school dropout. Transition Still this Thursday afternoon, Arns and senators from the collegiate will deliver the document to the president of the Senate, senator Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), and to the members of the team responsible for the area of ​​education in the transitional government. “The recommendations are the contribution that the Senate makes to Brazilian education, considering all the difficulties and suggestions that were pointed out over almost two years of debates with various segments of the area. We hope that the document will help the transition team in planning the necessary actions to recover from the severe losses that Brazilian education has suffered in recent years”, said Arns.

Agência Brasil