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01/24/2013
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To equip all 113,269 units by 2020, as envisaged in the law would require construction of 34 libraries per day
According to the study, 80.6% of schools built between 2008 and 2011 have no library Agency (Brazil)
Brazil needs to build 130,000 school libraries in 2020 to 12,244 enforce the law, which requires public and private schools in the country to maintain a decent minimum of one book for each student. Today, only 27.5% of public schools have libraries. According to a survey conducted by the Education For All movement based in the School Census 2011, only to equip the needy portion of 113,269 units to the public sometime in the law would require the construction of 34 libraries per day.
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The study compares the Census 2011 figures with those of 2008 and reveals that over 80% of schools built between 2009 and 2011 do not have libraries. Institutions opened in the 7284 period, slightly more than 1,500 contemplate reading space.
The states are the poorest in the North and Northeast. In the municipal Maranhão, only 6% of schools have libraries. Despite the worst results in these focus areas, São Paulo has one of the worst rates of ranking: 85% of the units of state and municipal networks do not have libraries, totaling 15,084 units in need.
The damage is enormous: the 2012 edition of Portraits of Reading research in Brazil, the Foundation Pro-Book, showed that school libraries are the main form of access to books among children and youth 5-17 years of age. "This only shows that the legislation is not enough, because that law has not really caught," said Priscila Cruz, director of the Education For All.
The educational institutions are the most disadvantaged children. While 82% of vocational schools and 52% of high school built after 2008 have a library, only 10% of school children have the space. The number is a nonsense, according to educators, since it is in the age group of 5 years that the child is discovering the written language and needs to be stimulated to read.
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