Overview
- The law was sanctioned on Thursday and establishes the Cadastro Nacional de Estudantes com Altas Habilidades under the Ministry of Education to map and track gifted students across basic and higher education.
- The statute requires education systems to offer Atendimento Educacional Especializado such as enrichment programs, subject acceleration, interest-based grouping and flexible progression for students, including those with double exceptionality.
- The president vetoed the chapters that would have imposed annual mass screening and mandatory multidisciplinary evaluations, arguing those requirements could create bureaucracy, delay services and clash with existing inclusion law rules.
- Implementation depends on voluntary adhesion by states, the Federal District and municipalities, and any federal technical or financial support will be limited by available budgets and local capacity.
- The 2025 School Census recorded about 56,000 formally identified gifted students, a baseline officials say the new registry will refine, and Congress can still overturn the presidential vetoes in joint sessions.