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The objectives of the Northeast Basic Education Project, the Bank's fourth in the education sector in Brazil, are to improve the coverage, quality, and efficiency of basic education in the nine northeastern states, where basic education has been particularly deficient. It will assist the federal government, the states, and 248 selected municipalities to implement the first phase of a long-term national basic education development plan aimed at correcting imbalances in educational opportunities. The project provides for construction of classrooms, curricula development and production of textbooks and learning materials, training of teachers and supervisors, a pilot school meals program, strengthening of municipal education administration, and evaluation and school mapping studies. Project beneficiaries will include some 23,000 rural teachers and 2,000 supervisors to be upgraded during the project period, and about 800,000 students who will be affected annually at project completion by the various project components.