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The Integrated Centers of Public Education (Portuguese: Centros Integrados de Educação Pública, CIEP), popularly known as Brizolões, were an educational project created by anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro, whom regarded them "a revolution in Brazil's public education"[1]. Initially implemented in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, alongside governor Leonel Brizola's first two terms (1983 – 1987 and 1991 – 1994), its aim was to offer quality full-time public education to state school students.[2] Brizola deeply cared about public education, thus making the CIEP projects' aim to guarantee full-time education not only in regards to its time commitment, but also valuing all aspects of students development. As a matter of fact, it is due to the CIEP policy that full-time education "was permanently annexed in the country's education policies, as it allowed for a citizen's social development, reducing social inequalities, supporting the communities they pertained to and participating in a larger context of social security, inserted in human rights and public security policies" of his government.[3]

School hours went from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., offering extracurricular subjects such as cultural activities, oriented studies and physical education. Students were granted full meals and free medical and odontological exams. Each unit had an average capacity of a thousand students.[4]

The project offered meals from the arrival of the child to their departure, where dinner was served. After academic terms or during middle-year vacation, recreational activities were held so that children could still access the CIEP and its resources, such as its study rooms and meals. Didactic materials were supplied to each student and every grade had an available teacher.

The CIEP project also cared for homeless children, offering them "social parents"ː public workers stationed at the units who took care of children therein.

Architectural aspects
Oscar Niemeyer elaborated the buildings architectural design, with over 500 units built. To reduce costs, precast concrete pieces were used.[5]

The school is divided in three different structures:


 * Main building, three-stories high, hosting classrooms, medical centre, kitchen, cantina, bathrooms, administration and recreation areas;
 * Sports field, capable of hosting cultural and artistic activities;
 * Library and dorms building.

Posterity
Post-Brizola governments did not continue with the project, removing its full-time aspect. Thus, all built and operational units became regular schools, working in periods. The others, partially built, were abandoned, alongside the industrial installations where their concrete parts were made.

The program would inspire the Integral Attention Center of Children and Teens (CAIC) project, nationally adopted in 1990 by the Collor Government.[6]

Rio de Janeiro's mayor Eduardo Paes (2009-2016), inspired by the CIEP project, created the "schools of tomorrow", municipal schools with full-time education. Honoring Leonel Brizola, the factory tasked with logistics, storage and construction work of schools of tomorrow was coined "Schools of Tomorrow Factory Governor Leonel Brizola".[7]