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08/30/2012
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With the sanction of 50% of vacancies are aimed at black students and public schools
President Dilma Rousseff signed on Wednesday (29) the law that governs the system of social and racial quotas in public universities across the country in federal
With enactment, the federal public universities will have until 2016 to allocate half the seats to students from public schools, and 50% of them will be reserved for blacks, mulattos and Indians and 50% for students from families with income per capita up to a minimum wage and a half.
The law is beginning to assert from the buccal 2013 and its regulations will be ready by the end of the year.
The signing took place on the afternoon of Wednesday, during a ceremony in the courtroom of the Presidency. Mrs Nice Lobão (PMDB-AM), author of the bill, was honored during the event. Also attending the ceremony Ministers of Education, Mercadante, and the Promotion of Racial Equality, Luiza Barros, and Senator Paulo Paim (PT-RS), one of the project proponents in the Senate.
Only the article two of the bill was vetoed by the president. He comes to the access of students to these institutions. For the text adopted by Congress, the selection of students quota would be made based on the CR (Coefficient of Performance), obtained from the arithmetic mean of student grades in high school.
Mercadante denies that the level of universities will fall, but recognizes that maintaining meritocracy will be the greatest challenge.
We can not fail to recognize that it will be a challenge to maintain meritocracy. We have to work hard to improve public education.
According to the minister, the students tickets through quotas have courses and tutoring so that there is a race with the other students.
According to Luiza Barros, the country now has 8,700 blacks in federal universities. With the new law, in four years, that number will climb to 56 000. The proportion of blacks in the quota system will be defined by the IBGE, and the candidate will be self-definition black, mulatto or Indian.
- With this law, we have taken a big step in what refers to affirmative action in universities.
The text will be published on Thursday (30) in the Official Gazette
Source: R7 News
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