De referir que para a educação o FMI apresentou uma proposta que é essencialmente o que tenho defendido aqui (pag 63):
Implement a simple formula-based funding framework that allows money to follow
the student. Portugal could opt for a more challenging reorganization of the education
system by applying a per-student financing formula, which has the advantage of
enhancing equity, reducing inefficiency, and allowing the system to adapt to changing
demographics. This would require giving autonomy to schools to hire teachers, and
would need to be accompanied by a closer monitoring of school performance and
schools being held accountable for education outcomes. If, under the new system,
costs were benchmarked to the charter-school limit of €85,288 per class, per-student
cost would fall by at least €400 based on the higher gross public-school costs.64
Assuming savings of €400 per student, and further assuming this number to be the
same for the primary and secondary education systems, would result in total savings
(before separation payments) of as much as €580 million (0.3 percent of GDP) if
applied to the total population of 1.5 million primary and secondary education
students. The change would inevitably imply a reduction in teacher numbers and
salaries down to the levels in effect at charter schools, but would achieve a
redistribution of financing from better-off to poorer schools.
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