A-Infos (en) Brazil, OSL: São Paulo Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicanos) Threatens to Fire Thousands of Teachers Across the State (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The governor of the state of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas 
(Republicanos), has launched one of the most devastating attacks against 
public services and the working class. His "performance evaluation," 
established by Resolution 83/2025, is a control instrument designed to 
legitimize the breach of contracts and the exclusion of teachers from 
the class assignment process.
One of the most critical points of the regulation is the absurd 
attendance criterion, in which the "Traffic Light" system (Green, 
Yellow, Red) penalizes teachers who have not met attendance targets 
throughout the year. In this sense, a professional who has just entered 
education and, therefore, took a long time to get an assigned class, 
would be penalized for the months they were out of work. Similarly, the 
period of absence related to health issues would also be counted, 
punishing teachers for getting sick.

The practical application of these evaluations for the 2025 school year 
directly impacts contract renewal. The regulations do not specify 
objective criteria for the evaluations, but they already establish that 
teachers with unsatisfactory performance will be subject to contract 
termination or barred from participating in the assignment of classes at 
the beginning of the year. This lack of criteria violates the principle 
of impartiality and creates a system of mass dismissal without real just 
cause, circumventing job security and basic labor rights. Thousands of 
teachers, upon being flagged for "red light" without objective reason, 
will summarily lose their livelihoods. By linking job security to 
unattainable or subjective productivity indices, the government weakens 
union mobilization (through fear of dismissal), reduces payroll costs 
(due to increased turnover of contracted staff), and diminishes the 
quality of education (because the objective of these measures is not 
teaching and learning).

This is yet another episode in which public education in the state of 
São Paulo is treated as a profitable business, to the detriment of the 
real quality of learning, the professional development of educators, and 
the human formation of the working class. Conversely, no one and no 
index indicates that measures like these improve education. The opposite 
is happening: parents, teachers, and students perceive a worsening of 
the educational system. School is not a business!

Resistance must be political and massive. We join the demonstration 
called by the teachers' union, Apeoesp, for this Wednesday, the 17th, in 
Praça da República, São Paulo. It is urgent that we occupy the square to 
demand the immediate repeal of this punitive evaluation system! We will 
not accept that Tarcísio's "modernization" be the pretext for the hunger 
of thousands of educators' families!

For the end of punitive evaluation! Against the mass dismissal of 
Category O teachers!

In defense of public schools and dignified teaching work!

Libertarian Socialist Organization

December 2025

https://socialismolibertario.net/2025/12/16/governo-tarcisio-ameaca-demitir-milhares-de-professores/
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