Overview
- The STF plenary unanimously invalidated Santa Cruz de Monte Castelo’s 2014 Complementary Law 9 creating the program, with André Mendonça absent.
- Relator Luiz Fux held that the municipality usurped the Union’s exclusive authority to legislate the National Education Guidelines and Framework (LDB).
- Justices found the neutrality mandate and bans on alleged indoctrination violated freedom to teach, learn, and pluralism, characterizing prior censorship of teachers.
- Ministers Flávio Dino and Cármen Lúcia warned the vague standard could make routine instruction unworkable and keep educators in fear.
- Brought by CNTE and Anajudh-LGBTI with support from the PGR and AGU, the case reinforces STF precedent against similar local measures, including a 2020 Alagoas law.