2016 student protests in Brazil

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Date2 January 2016 (2016-01-02) – 27 November 2016 (2016-11-27)
Location
Brazil - 22 states and the Federal District[1][2]
Caused by
Goals
  • More investments and better conditions in education for students and teachers
  • Fight against corruption
  • Stop the high school reform announced by president Michel Temer
  • Stop the approval of bills such as PEC 241/16 and PLS 193/16, known as "Nonpartisan School", in the National Congress
  • End of salary installments for teachers in Rio Grande do Sul by governor José Ivo Sartori
2016 student protests in Brazil
Public school occupied by high school students, in Brasília
Date2 January 2016 (2016-01-02) – 27 November 2016 (2016-11-27)
Location
Brazil - 22 states and the Federal District[1][2]
Caused by
Goals
  • More investments and better conditions in education for students and teachers
  • Fight against corruption
  • Stop the high school reform announced by president Michel Temer
  • Stop the approval of bills such as PEC 241/16 and PLS 193/16, known as "Nonpartisan School", in the National Congress
  • End of salary installments for teachers in Rio Grande do Sul by governor José Ivo Sartori
Methods
Parties
Lead figures
  • Non-centralized leadership
  • Carina Vitral (UNE)
  • Camila Lanes (UBES)
Casualties
Death(s)2
Injuries207

The Student mobilisation in Brazil in 2016 (Portuguese: Mobilização estudantil no Brasil em 2016) corresponded to a series of demonstrations and occupations in Brazilian secondary schools and universities that intensified during the second half of 2016. The mobilisations were carried out by high school and university students in several states in Brazil.[10]

The demonstrations aimed to stop projects and measures by the state governments of Geraldo Alckmin, Marconi Perillo, José Ivo Sartori, Beto Richa, Luiz Fernando Pezão and the government of then President Michel Temer. The students protested the bills from the "PEC of the spending ceiling" to PEC 241, project "School without a Party", PL 44 and the provisional measure of the New High School.[11]

Possibly inspired by the wave of student mobilisations in São Paulo in 2015, students asked for more investments and better conditions in education for students and teachers as well as the improvement in the quality of school meals and the infrastructure of schools.[12]

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