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   ocr: Education tollows the French system with - a "bachillerato" "baccalauréat") - at the end ofs secondary schooling. State schools enjoyeda goodreputation until the 1950s, but have declined since then. Most niddle-class parents now send their children to private schools. The wealthy send theirs to Switzerland or France. Millions ofthe poor receive little education- - especially those living in the northeast and Amazonia, and the urban - poor. Brazil's three million street children have no schooling at all. Public degree ouses work on credits,as in the USA. Of. Brazil's 95 universities, 55 are adm ...