- economist to politics
- Anisio Teixeira – his hero
- Published his book in 1992
- education boils down to two unattainable goals: more and better
- 1995 started big changes
- FUNDEF was a great move by the Ministry of Education
- It was a move to redistribute the resources more fairly between State and Municipalities
- FUNDEB now puts them on the same side
- Teacher salaries are now part of the law with a minimum set
Q&A
- Bolsa Familia made a big impact in education by tying school attendance to receiving this benefit
- What happens outside of school is as important as to what happens within the school systems
- Nowadays you have ‘concursos’ to hire teachers but now they are ‘punished’ each time who is in power changes
