Abstract:
The Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE) [National Confederation of Workers in Education], composed by 49 affiliated entities, representing educational workers from state public schools, the Federal District and several Brazilian municipalities mobilized, along with other entities linked to the educational field, an intense fight for the approval of the new Plano Nacional de Educação (PNE) [National Education Plan], which then occurred on June 25th, 2014, with the promulgation of the Federal Law n. 13.005/14. The 20 goals and the 254 strategies of the new plan define the axis for the elaboration of educational policies during the next ten years. It is the three-sphere federal government and the social movements' task to handle and attend to the universalization of basic education with quality and equality, the increase of young people's access to higher education, the financing of the public system, the valorization/development of education professionals, and the democratic administration of education. In this article I will present how the CNTE acted towards the approval of this new plan, emphasizing the achievements related to the professional appreciation of workers in education, established in the following goals 15, 16 17 and 18. It should be noted that, even though the PNE was enacted as law, vigilant monitoring (by the entities which have fought for its approval and consider it an achievement in relation to the current situation) will be necessary if full right to education with the deserved social quality as well as the valorization of its professionals is to be assured.
Keywords :
NCWE; Teacher appreciation; National education system; NEP; CNTE; PNE