Along with his education portfolio peer, Jaime Perczyk, Massa pointed out that the program accompanies a number of structural measures in the national education system. “Investment in education has to be in infrastructure, of course it has to be in better salaries for our teachersour teachers, the teaching staff of schools and universities, but it must also be to give our children the maximum opportunity and ability to access public education,” he said.
After highlighting the initiatives in virtual training, in which he explained that 70,000 students go through training processes in programming on the basis of agreements with 41 universities, as defined by the Minister of Economy “There is no greater social equalizer than education. Ascending social mobility occurs when a boy, leaving the house, obtains the same tools from having the possibility of being able to access a university degree, to access a training course, which puts him in line to leave on equal terms”.
How much does the scholarship go to Progresso with the new increase
In the meantime, Minister Jaime Perczyk highlighted that the amount of the Progresar had updates “in one year and three months for a 150% increase” going up “to $9,000 from the grant this December.”
In this sense, he indicated that the beneficiaries “are 16 and 17 year olds who have a scholarship for something very important to us: going to school, studying, working hard and finishing high school”.
