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Sunday Essay — The School Link Brazil Paid For Once

Brazil has connected its public schools in the right order: infrastructure first, pedagogical rules second, AI tools held back on purpose. What the sequence cannot survive is a funding model built on a one-off spectrum windfall — once construction contracts end, no recurring budget line pays the monthly bill for a rural satellite terminal. The programme's own administrator has said, on the record, that continuity is his main concern.