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Brazilian Senate Approves National Education System, Sending Bill to Lula's Desk

The measure establishes a SUS‑inspired governance model to align education policy across all levels of government.

Overview

  • The final text creates permanent coordination bodies—the tripartite Cite and state‑level Cibe—with consultative, propositional and oversight roles to pact policy among the Union, states and municipalities.
  • It establishes a national education data infrastructure (INDE) and a mandatory unique student identifier (INUE) linked to the CPF, with the Education Ministry responsible for building and supervising the system.
  • The law regulates the Custo Aluno‑Qualidade (CAQ) as the reference for minimum per‑student investment, with methodology defined by the Education Ministry in pactuation with other entities and validation in the intergovernmental forum.
  • Implementation deadlines set commissions to be created within 90 days of publication and full rollout within two years.
  • Senators approved the measure by 70 votes with one abstention, endorsing a version authored by Flávio Arns and reported in the Senate by Professora Dorinha Seabra after Chamber revisions on September 3.