New high school: ordinance suspends schedule in 60 days – 04/05/2023 – Education

The MEC (Ministry of Education) published at dawn this Wednesday (5), in the Official Gazette of the Union, the ordinance that suspends the implementation schedule of the new secondary education and changes in the Enem.

The period of suspension, according to the ordinance, will be 60 days after the conclusion of the public consultation on the subject.

Signed by the Minister of Education, Camilo Santana, the ordinance does not provide further details on the suspension of the schedule.

The decision was announced by Camilo this Tuesday (4), after meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). The minister said that there will be adjustments to the model, but maintained that there are no plans to revoke the measure, as demanded by student organizations.

According to him, there will be no advances in implementation while the work of a committee that analyzes the issue lasts. On the other hand, he stated that there is no forecast that education networks and schools will go back on the process, which has already started in 2022.

The suspension of the schedule is a political gesture to soften the criticism that the Lula government has been suffering on the subject. A portion of specialists, teachers and students defend the repeal of the reform in secondary education because of the accumulated problems in its implementation.

At an event at the MEC in the early afternoon, Camilo defended that the main objective of this suspension is to allow time for a qualified discussion of the reform.

“We are suspending any progress in the implementation until this commission defines, evaluates, listening to everyone, what will be the modifications, changes or corrections that we will make in secondary education”, he declared.

The minister leading the government Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in federal support for the implementation process and said there were many failures in the states, which had already been pointed out during the transition.

“There has been a state that chose eight disciplines in the itinerary, there has been a state that chose 300. There was no guidance, teacher training, there was no adaptation of infrastructure”, he said. “You don’t make a change like that from one hour to another, this is a process. There was a lack of dialogue.”

The new secondary education was approved in 2017, based on a provisional measure (which accelerates the legislative process), and provides for the organization of the timetable in two parts.

Under the new rules, 60% of the three-year workload is made up of regular subjects, common to all students. The other 40% are allocated to optional subjects within large areas of knowledge, the so-called training itineraries.