The access to the internet in times of Covid-19

guarantee of material equality in the right to basic education

Abstract

The presente study search to identify whether it is possible to demand effective policies from the Government to guarantee the right to basic education through the materialization of Internet access during the pandemic period caused by COVID-19. Therefore, the Right to Education must be approached from the perspective of the existential minimum. In addition, it is important to study equal access to education from a material perspective, which imposes on the public administrator the objective duty to comply with constitutional dictates. From a practical point of view, it is necessary to analyze the Constitutional Court's view regarding the safeguarding of service rights, especially basic education, in addition to identifying concrete public policies for Internet access developed during the pandemic for the benefit of needy students. Considering that the work is bibliographic in nature, the method of approach used was the deductive method, concluding, in the end, by the feasibility of requiring the State to guarantee Internet access for the continuity of basic education and, if this is omitted, the judicial postulation.