Tens of thousands marched in Brazil on Wednesday in protest of big cuts to federal funding for public education.
Tens of thousands joined in demonstrations across Brazil on Wednesday to protest big cuts in federal funding for public education, the first nationwide rallies organized against far-right President Jair Bolsonaro since he took office Jan. 1.
Education experts, professors and students say they are particularly worried about the government freezing 30% of the discretionary budgets at all federal universities, money that goes to pay such things as utility bills, security, cleaning and maintenance work. "We approved a national education plan, with clear objectives to meet. It's a project that has been approved and that is still in vigor," he told The Associated Press."The government is ignoring this plan. They don't want to discuss education."
Carolina Ponce, a 20-year architecture student, said Brazilians are feeling"anger and frustration" over Bolsonaro's"attack" on education. In Brasilia, the capital, thousands of protesters carried banners down the Esplanade of Ministers past the lower house of congress, where Education minister Abraham Weintraub had been summoned to testify about the budget cuts.
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