Secretaria de Educação do Município de Tauá CE

What Secretaria de Educação do Município de Tauá CE does

Secretaria de Educação do Município de Tauá CE is the municipal education department of Tauá, in the state of Ceará, Brazil. It operates under the Prefeitura Municipal de Tauá, headed by Prefeita Patrícia Pequeno Costa Gomes de Aguiar, and is responsible for administering public education services across the municipality — from early childhood (Educação Infantil) through high school (Ensino Fundamental II) — including school infrastructure, school meals, student transportation, and teacher professional development. The department is led by Secretário Municipal da Educação João Álcimo Viana Lima, with an Executivo Secretário and a Coordenação-Geral de Convênios, Contratos e Ajustes Administrativos supporting operations.

The department is financed through the municipal annual budget (Lei Orçamentária Anual) drawing on municipal tax revenue, federal education transfers (Fundeb, PNATE), and state allocations, and provides services free of charge to all Tauá residents as mandated by the Brazilian Constitution. Its service delivery footprint consists of the municipal school network (urban, rural, and full-time schools) augmented by digital platforms including the E-taua portal, the Sime (Sistema Municipal de Emprego) employment system, the Portal do Contribuinte, the Portal de Transparência, the Diário Oficial Eletrônico, and the Ouvidoria citizen-complaint system. Long-term planning is anchored by the Plano Municipal de Educação (originally approved 2015, extended via Lei 2991/2026), with monitoring reports published regularly.

The department has accumulated a series of external certifications: Selo UNICEF 2021-2024, Selo Nacional Compromisso com a Alfabetização Ouro 2024, Selo ATRICON Ouro 2024 and 2025, and Selo Município Verde 2023. It maintains strategic partnerships with Universidade Christus (teacher training), UNDIME/CE (state-level education policy), and OBMEP (mathematics olympiad). It operates as a government entity under the Prefecture of Tauá, with no parent company, subsidiaries, or external investors.

Name

Secretaria de Educação do Município de Tauá CE

Legal name

Secretaria de Educação do Município de Tauá CE

Website

https://taua.ce.gov.br

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Secretaria de Educação do Município de Tauá CE is the municipal education department of Tauá, Ceará, Brazil, administering public basic education, school meals, transportation, and teacher training for the municipality's residents. It operates under the Prefeitura de Tauá and is funded through municipal, state, and federal education budgets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Education Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Local Education Authorities & Municipal Education Offices (EDADABAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Elementary Schools (EDAJAAAB), Literacy & ELA Instruction (School-Delivered) (EDAJAFAF)

Keywords

• Public education services
• Municipal education administration
• Basic education programs
• School transportation services
• Teacher professional development

Headquarters

HQ city

Tauá

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Municipal Education Budget: Government-funded education services financed through municipal tax revenue, federal education transfers (Fundeb, PNATE), and state allocations. Revenue allocated annually through LOA (Lei Orçamentária Anual)

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Secretaria de Educação do Município de Tauá CE delivers public basic education services (Educação Infantil and Ensino Fundamental) to children and youth residing in the municipality of Tauá, Ceará. Beyond classroom instruction, it provides school meals (merenda escolar), student transportation, professional qualification programs such as Programa Primeiro Passo, and continuing education for municipal teachers. All services are provided free of charge to residents as mandated by Brazilian law and funded through the municipal education budget.

Product overview

Secretaria de Educação do Município de Tauá CE operates as part of the municipal government of Tauá, Ceará, Brazil, providing citizen-facing digital services through multiple online platforms. The core service offering consists of the E-taua electronic services portal, the Sime (Sistema Municipal de Emprego) employment system, a taxpayer portal (Portal do Contribuinte) for tax-related services, the official gazette (Diário Oficial) for legal publications, a transparency portal for government accountability, the Ouvidoria complaint system, e-SIC for access to information requests, electronic service tax (ISS) management, and a drive-through seedling distribution service. These services are integrated into the municipal government infrastructure and do not appear to be a unified software product but rather a collection of government service applications operated by the municipality.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Educação Infantil (Early Childhood Education) Public early childhood education provided through the municipal school network for young children residing in Tauá.
• Ensino Fundamental (Primary Education) Public primary education delivered through municipal schools, covering the full fundamental education cycle for school-age children and youth in Tauá.
• Programa Primeiro Passo (First Step Qualification Program) Professional qualification program for youth in Tauá, providing job-readiness training and connecting participants to employment pathways.
• Merenda Escolar (School Meal Program) School meals (merenda escolar) provided to students enrolled in municipal schools in Tauá.
• School Transportation (Transporte Escolar) Student transportation services for municipal school students, including rural and urban routes within the Tauá municipality.
• Teacher Professional Development (Formação Continuada) Continuing education and pedagogical training programs for municipal teachers and education staff, delivered in partnership with institutions such as Universidade Christus.

Quantifiable outcome

• Plano Municipal de Educação 2015-2026 with monitoring reports 2015-2024
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Universidade ChristuscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 April 2026Partnership for teacher professional development and pedagogical training programs. Universidade Christus provides educational training for municipal teachers and education staff, including teaching methodology courses for Fundamental II education. Municipal Education Department sends teachers and coordinators to participate in continuing education programs.
• OBMEP - Olimpíadas Brasileiras de Matemática das Escolas PúblicasminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 November 2025Participation in national mathematics olympiad for public school students. Municipal education department coordinates student participation and ceremony attendance for medal recipients.
• UNDIME/CE - União Nacional dos Dirigentes Municipais de Educação do CearácoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 May 2022Municipal Education Secretary participates in state-level education policy forums and professional development events organized by UNDIME/CE. Represents Tauá's education interests in state education policy discussions.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Vasta (Somos Educação): Brazilian K-12 education solutions company (part of Cogna) providing curriculum, content, and digital platforms to schools. Comparable because it serves K-12 students and families with similar educational content needs, and represents the type of private-sector partner that municipal education departments might contract to supplement public school offerings.

Broad incumbents

• Yduqs (formerly Estácio Participações): Major Brazilian education group operating K-12 (IDOMED, Wyden) and higher education institutions. Comparable as a large Brazilian education provider navigating the same MEC regulatory landscape, with overlapping customer segments (students and families) and similar teacher-training considerations, though primarily focused on higher education and paid K-12.
• Cogna Educação: Brazil's largest education company, operating K-12 (Somos Educação/Vasta), higher education, and digital learning platforms. Comparable as a Brazilian education operator whose K-12 segment via Vasta competes for the same student/family segment and works with similar regulatory frameworks (MEC, CNE), though it operates as a private for-profit counterpart to Tauá's public K-12 network.
• Secretaria de Educação do Estado do Ceará (SEDUC): State-level Ceará education secretariat that coordinates state schools and provides policy guidance to municipal education departments including Tauá. Comparable because it operates under the same regulatory framework, oversees UNDIME/CE coordination referenced in Tauá's partnerships, and represents the higher-tier authority that municipal departments report to.

Others

• Undime (União Nacional dos Dirigentes Municipais de Educação): National association of municipal education leaders in Brazil. Relevant peer because Tauá's education secretary actively participates in UNDIME/CE (state chapter), the body that coordinates municipal education policy, professional development, and federal funding advocacy across all Brazilian municipal education secretariats.

Regional players

• Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Quixadá: Municipal education secretariat in Quixadá, a comparable mid-sized municipality in Ceará. Peer because it operates the same municipal K-12 governance function under identical state/federal regulatory frameworks, with similar challenges of serving rural and urban school networks within a single mid-sized Ceará municipality.

Direct peers

• Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Sobral: Municipal education secretariat in Sobral, Ceará, widely recognized for its literacy program excellence. Comparable because it operates under the same state education policy framework, has won national and international literacy awards (similar to Selo Nacional Compromisso com a Alfabetização), and manages municipal K-12 education for a similar-sized municipality in Ceará.
• Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Fortaleza: State capital municipal education secretariat in Ceará operating the same public K-12 governance function for Fortaleza. Directly comparable as the largest peer education secretariat in the same Brazilian state, managing a comparable set of programs (early childhood, fundamental education, school meals, transportation) under the same federal/state regulatory framework.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

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