BR- BA BASIC EDU PROJECT (PHASE I)

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The Bahia Education Project will target fundamental schools in the State's poorest municipalities, to assist the Government in improving the educational system, and responsiveness to the demands, and needs of the State's population. The components include: 1) school quality improvement, assuring minimum operational standards for schools, consisting of the following essential criteria: understanding of operational standards, and equity considerations, by both the school staff, and community; universal student access to basic textbooks, and, teachers' access to teaching guides; and, furnished classrooms, with at least the minimum equipment, and basic teaching material requirements; 2) expansion of educational access, to meet the growing demand for secondary education. This component, complementary of a federal loan that will finance the expansion of secondary education in several sates, will plan, and structurally reorganize the secondary school system, guaranteeing additional school places, through the rationalization of state, municipal, and private school resources. This micro-planning, a combination of school mapping, and geographic information systems, is a technical instrument to promote state/municipal cooperation for school locations; and, 3) increased school autonomy, by strengthening educational assessments, institutional educational management, and monitoring and evaluation.