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08/08/2012
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Under the proposal, half of the shares, or 25% of total vacancies, will be aimed at students black, brown or indigenous
Senators passed the night of Tuesday, a project that regulates the system of racial quotas in public universities and social federal nationwide. For the matter, reported by Senator Ana Rita (EN-ES), half of university places should be separate quotas.
The reserve will be divided half and half. Half of the shares, or 25% of total vacancies, will be aimed at students black, brown or indigenous according to the proportion of these populations in each state, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
The other half of the quotas will be allocated to students who have done all the second grade in public schools and whose families have income per capita than the minimum wage and a half. For advocates of the proposal, this model that combines social and racial quotas is wider and uniform policies reservation of vacancies that exist in the various federal universities.
The draft regulation of the quota policy was adopted after the Supreme Court declared it constitutional that kind of affirmative action in universities. The approval of the matter was symbolic vote by a majority of senators present. The bill already passed by the House of Representatives and now goes to presidential approval.
Source: Ig News
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