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Legislators Seek to Annul ex-Minister Weintraub’s Revocation of Quotas Ordinance

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Legislators will seek to render ineffective the measure taken a day before his resignation by the ex-Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, which ended the creation of quotas for blacks, indigenous and disabled people in graduate degree courses at federal educational institutions. At least two bills to annul this measure were submitted on Thursday, June 18th, one in the Chamber of Deputies and another in the Senate.

Certain of his resignation from the government, Weintraub revoked an ordinance on the reservation of places. According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) from . . .

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