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==Education== According to the MST, it taught over 50,000 landless workers to read and write between 2002 and 2005. It also runs the Popular University of Social Movements (PUSM)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universidadepopular.org/site/pages/pt/em-destaque.php|title=Universidade Popular dos Movimentos Sociais - EM DESTAQUE|website=www.universidadepopular.org|access-date=22 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129091353/http://www.universidadepopular.org/site/pages/pt/em-destaque.php|archive-date=29 January 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> at a campus in [[Guararema]], [[São Paulo]]. Also called Florestan Fernandes School (FFS), after [[Marxist]] scholar [[Florestan Fernandes]], the school offers secondary school classes in a variety of fields; its first graduating class (2005) of 53 students received degrees in Specialized Rural Education and Development. With the [[University of Brasília]], the government of [[Venezuela]] and the [[Via Campesina|NGO Via Campesina]], as well as agreements with federal, state and community colleges, it offers classes in [[pedagogy]], history, and [[agronomy]], and technical subjects at different skill levels.<ref>See managing [[NGO]]'s Association of Friends of the Florestan Fernandes School site, [http://www.amigosenff.org.br/pt-BR/a-escola/formacao] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140806203013/http://www.amigosenff.org.br/pt-BR/a-escola/formacao|date=2014-08-06}}. Retrieved August 29, 2014</ref> The building was constructed with by brigades of volunteers using [[soil cement]] bricks made onsite at the school.<ref>Cf. ''América Latina en Movimiento'' news website, January the 19th. 2005: "MST inaugura Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes", text available at [http://alainet.org/active/7454&lang=es] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718162005/http://alainet.org/active/7454%26lang%3Des|date=2011-07-18}}</ref> The late [[Oscar Niemeyer]] designed an auditorium and further sustainable, low environmental impact expansion of the school complex is pending.<ref>Rainer Grassmann & Analia Amorim, "Tecnologias construtivas de baixo impacto ambiental, alto valor social e cultural". Undergraduate monograph, abridgment, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the São Paulo University site [http://www.fau.usp.br/disciplinas/tfg/tfg_online/tr/141/a058.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006110633/http://www.fau.usp.br/disciplinas/tfg/tfg_online/tr/141/a058.html|date=2014-10-06}}. Retrieved October 5, 2014</ref>{{when|date=July 2017}} The MST formed its education sector in [[Rio Grande do Sul]] in 1986, a year after its first national convention.<ref>Fernandes, Barnard Mancano. ''The Formation of the MST in Brazil.'' Editora Vozes, Petropolis 2000, page 78</ref> By 2001, about 150,000 children attended 1,200 primary and secondary schools in its settlements and camps. The schools employ 3,800 teachers, many of them MST-trained. The movement has trained 1,200 educators, who run classes for 25,000 young people and adults. It trains primary-school teachers in most states of Brazil, and partners with international agencies such as [[UNESCO]], [[UNICEF]] and the Catholic Church. Seven institutions of higher education in different regions provide degree courses in education for MST teachers.<ref>Jan Rocha and Sue Branford. ''Cutting the Wire''</ref> Some call MST communal schools markedly better than their conventional counterparts in rural communities, in both quantitative and qualitative terms.<ref>Edward L. Cleary, ''Mobilizing for human rights in Latin America''. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-56549-241-7}}, page 79</ref>
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