Tarcísio government authorizes payment of the teacher floor – 03/18/2023 – Education

Two months after the Ministry of Education announced a 15% readjustment in the salary floor for basic education teachers, the government of Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) authorized this Saturday (17) the payment of the increase for teachers in the state network of São Paulo. Paul.

The decree was published in the Official Gazette. Payment will be made on a bonus basis, which means that the increase is not incorporated into the salary. That is, it does not enter into the account for career development or retirement calculation.

The national base for teachers reached R$ 4,420.55 this year. An increase of 14.95% in relation to the 2022 floor, which was R$ 3,845.63.

According to the State Department of Education, the payment will be made to teachers in the São Paulo network in the last week of March, retroactive to January. The folder reported that 109,000 teachers will receive the readjustment.

“[Essa] it was a week of achievements for Education in São Paulo. From the announcement of new tools to reduce school dropouts to the increase in teachers’ salaries signed today,” he told Sheet the Secretary of Education, Renato Feder.

The readjustment of the initial earnings of basic education teachers is determined by the so-called Floor Law, from 2007, which came into effect the following year. This legislation links the increase to the variation in the value per year of Fundeb, the main funding mechanism for basic education.

The readjustment had been announced in an interministerial decree in the last days of the Jair Bolsonaro government and was confirmed in January by the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).

Last year, the Sheet showed that the Bolsonaro government wanted to stop the readjustment of the floor, which was 33.2%, including plans to edit a provisional measure to change the rules. Management backtracked because of the negative impact of the measure in an election year.