Only Pará, RJ, RS, SC and SP are expected to reopen public schools: see the situation in your region | Education

Even in these locations, back-to-classroom signage is still subject to change, depending on the evolution of the new coronavirus pandemic. In the remaining 20 states and the Federal District, there is no date scheduled to resume. A similar scenario occurs in municipal networks capitals and private network.

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Since March, face-to-face classes are suspended in schools, educational centers and universities of all country due to the pandemic. In early July, the Ministry of Education (MEC) released a document with guidelines on returning to face-to-face classes, but without stipulating a date.

See below the predictions of resumption in the state networks, in the municipal networks of the capitals and in the private schools.

• Amazon: the only state that resumed classes on August 10; Teachers asked the government to suspend classes due to the increase in Covid-19 cases in the category;
• Rio Grande do Sul: first fortnight of September, with no fixed date, beginning with early childhood education;
• by: September 1 (it will reach basic, primary, middle and higher education. It is valid for the municipalities that are classified with the yellow, green and blue flags);
• Rio de Janeiro: October 5 (Priority should be given to returning to classes in the 9th year of elementary school and in the 3rd year of high school in order for students to graduate);
• Saint Paul: October 7 (In the first phase, only 35% of the students in each class will be able to attend schools every day. That is, one day one group goes, another day another);
• St. Catarina: starting October 13 (expected to start with high school students and technicians);
• No back to school preview yet: Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Bahia, Ceará, Federal District, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia, Roraima, Sergipe and Tocantins.

Municipal capital networks

In the municipal network, only three of the capitals indicated the return to school, also subject to changes by the coronavirus:

• Belem (PA): September, still no date defined. The system will be hybrid, with part of the students face-to-face and the other part with non-face-to-face educational activities;
• Florianopolis (SOUTH CAROLINA): as well as the state network, the forecast is that the resumption will take place as of October 13, with a gradual resumption
• Saint Louis (MOTHER): expectation of resumption in September, with no date yet defined. When there is return, the face-to-face activities will take place three days a week, while the rest of the students will be in distance classes, transmitted through remote classrooms.

• Other capitals: no forecast or date signage due to pandemic

Regarding the survey of the G1 done in July with the municipal departments of Education of the capitals, Cuiabá (MT), Curitiba (PR), Macapá (AP) intended to return to face-to-face classes in August; São Paulo (SP), Palmas (TO) and Salvador (BA) planned to return in September. At six, there was a postponement. Only São Luís and Belém kept their plans for the resumption to take place in September.

In Maranhão, at least three schools suspended their activities for a few days after teachers tested positive for the new coronavirus. The same happened in the schools of the Military Police of Manaus.

In five states, plus the Federal District, there are signs of resumption:

• Ceara: September 1, initially with nursery and preschool in Fortaleza; attending classes is optional
• Rio Grande do Sul: first fortnight of September, without a definite date and gradually;
• Rio de Janeiro: On September 14, with a third of the capacity of the students in face-to-face classes;
• St. Catarina: The resumption is expected to take place from October 13, with a gradual resumption;
• South Mato Grosso: September 10, also in a staggered manner
• Federal District: Classes would return in July on the private network, but are suspended by the courts. On August 25 it was decided that the resumption would take place as of September 21; the district government has indicated that it will ratify the decision

• Other states: not yet predicted

In July, G1 showed that the education secretariats of 9 states plus the DF planned to go back to school on the state network. But everyone postponed the return because the pandemic and the risk of contagion still persist.

• It was like this with Maranhão, Rondônia, Tocantins, Rio Grande do Norte and the Federal District (they had the intention of resuming face-to-face classes in August and now they have no date set) …
• … also with Acre, Piauí and Paraná (they intended to return in September and then decided to keep the classroom classes suspended indefinitely) …
• me Sao Paulo and Santa Catarina that now work with the return in October 7 It’s in from October 13, respectively.

Federal government guidelines

Among the guidelines published by MEC on July 1 to resume face-to-face classes are:

• Mandatory use of a mask
• Temperature measurement when accessing common areas
• Alcohol gel availability
• Staggered back to work
• Room ventilation
• Possibility of remote work for employees and employees of the risk group
• Remote meetings and events
• Distance of at least 1.5m
• Guidance to keep hair tied up and avoid the use of personal accessories such as earrings, rings and watches.
• Do not share objects, including books and the like
• Biweekly reports to monitor and evaluate the performance of activities.

* With report by Janine Brasil (G1 AC), Rodrigues falls (G1 AL), Victor Cruz (G1 AM), Fabiana Figueiredo (G1 AP), Gabriel Gonçalves (G1 BA), Lucas Falconry (G1 EC), Carolina Cruz (G1 DF), Amaro Mota (G1 ES), Vanessa martins (G1 GO), Rafaelle Fróes (G1 MA), Cristina Castro (G1 MG), Gabriela Azevedo and Taymã Carneiro (G1 PA), Dani Fechine (G1 PB), Pedro Brodbeck (G1 PR), Pedro Alves (G1 PE), Matheus Rodrigues (G1 RJ), Fernanda Zauli (G1 RN), Ana Kézia Gomes (G1 RO), Polyana Girardi (G1 RR), Lilian Lima, Cecilia Fontoura and Luana Casagranda (G1 RS), Valéria Martins (G1 SC), Cintia Acayaba (G1 SP), Joelma Gonçalves and Jéssica França (G1 SE) and João Guilherme Lobasz (G1 A).