ANHANGUERA EDUCACIONAL PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A. Corporate Taxpayer’s ID (CNPJ/MF): 04.310.392/0001-46 Company Registry (NIRE): 35.300.184.092 Publicly-held Company MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING HELD ON MAY 8, 2009 Date, Time and Venue: May 8, 2009, at 9:00 a.m., at Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, nº 2055, 7º andar in the city and state of São Paulo. Attendance and Call Notice: The call noticed was waived, due to the presence of all the members of the Board of Directors. Presiding Board: Chairman: Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh; Secretary: Ricardo Leonel Scavazza. Agenda: (i) Acceptance of the letter of resignation from his post as the Company’s Investor Relations Officer submitted by Ricardo Leonel Scavazza ; (ii) Election of the members of the Company’s Board of Executive Officers; and (iii) Appreciation of the Company’s results for the first quarter of 2009. Resolutions: After analyzing and discussing the matters on the agenda, the members of the Board of Directors decided, by a unanimous vote, with no qualifications: (i) to accept Ricardo Leonel Scavazza’s resignation from his post as the Company’s Investor Relations Officer; (ii) to elect the following persons to the Company’s Board of Executive Officers: (a) Antonio Carbonari Netto, Brazilian, married, professor, Identity Card (RG) 4.850.502 (SSP/SP), Individual Taxpayer’s ID (CPF/MF) 553.299.348-34, resident and domiciled in the city of Valinhos, state of São Paulo, with business address at Alameda Maria Tereza, nº 2000, as Chief Executive Officer; (b) José Luis Poli, Brazilian, married, professor, Identity Card (RG) 9.056.109 (SSP/SP), Individual Taxpayer’s ID (CPF/MF) 967.767.228-20 resident and domiciled in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, at Rua Francisco Rodrigues Guilherme, nº 200, as Vice President Academic Officer; (c) Ricardo Leonel Scavazza, Brazilian, single, business administrator, Identity Card (RG) 28.451.965-0 (SSP/SP), Individual Taxpayer’s ID (CPF/MF) 148.090.838-02, resident and domiciled in the city and state of São Paulo, with business address at Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, nº 2055, 7º andar, as Vice President Chief Operating Officer; (d) Marcos Lima Verde Guimarães Junior, Brazilian, married, business administrator, Identity 1 Card (RG) 10.557.316 (SSP/SP), Individual Taxpayer’s ID (CPF/MF) 125.604.338-93, resident and domiciled in the city of Valinhos, state of São Paulo, with business address at Alameda Maria Tereza, nº 2000, as Chief Financial Officer, with the following duties: (i) to oversee accounting activities, accounts payable, legal consulting, the personnel department, information technology, control over accounts receivable, treasury and projects for the improvement of processes; (e) Maria Elisa Ehrhardt Carbonari, Brazilian, married, professor, Identity Card (RG) 4.795.423 (SSP/SP), Individual Taxpayer’s ID (CPF/MF) 963.483.998-34, resident and domiciled in the city of Valinhos, state of São Paulo, with commercial address at Alameda Maria Tereza, nº 2000, as Institutional Program Officer, with the following duties: (i) to oversee all the research and community extension activities developed by the secondary education institutions maintained by the Company; and (ii) to oversee the activities of the libraries, institutional evaluation and institutional scientific and intellectual production publications; (f) Alex Carbonari, Brazilian, married, business administrator, Identity Card (RG) 25.893.119-X (SSP/SP), Individual Taxpayer’s ID (CPF/MF) 254.946.428-10, resident and domiciled in the city of Valinhos, state of São Paulo, with commercial address at Alameda Maria Tereza, nº 2000, as Development Officer, with the following duties: (i) to oversee the infrastructure development of all the units; (ii) to oversee the prospection and physical implementation of new campuses and their respective infrastructure; and (iii) to oversee the maintenance and security activities of the campuses and/or educational units; and (g) José Augusto Teixeira, Brazilian, single, business administrator, Identity Card (RG) 27.014.285-X (SSP/SP), Individual Taxpayer’s ID (CPF/MF) 212.449.518-62, resident and domiciled in the city of Valinhos, state of São Paulo, with commercial address at Alameda Maria Tereza, nº 2000, as Chief Planning Officer and Investor Relations Officer, with the following duties: (i) monitoring the Company’s financial results and reporting these results to the Board of Directors; and (ii) overseeing the development of financial and operational reports to monitor the Company’s businesses. The hereby elected Officers will have a three-year term of office as of today, which will last until the investiture of their successors, re-election being allowed. The hereby elected members of the Board of Executive Officers must not have committed any crime that impedes them from performing commercial activities, being cognizant of article 147 of Law 6.404, of December 15, 1976. It is agreed that the hereby elected Officers will be invested in their position up to 30 (thirty) days from today through the signature of (a) the instruments of investiture drawn up in the Book of Minutes of the Board of Executive Officers’ Meetings; (b) the statements described by CVM Instruction 367/02; (c) the instrument of agreement foreseen by the Listing Regulations of Level 2 of Bovespa’s Special Corporate Governance Segment; and (d) the terms of commitment to the Company’s Material Act or Fact Disclosure Policy; and (iii) to approve the Company’s results for the first quarter of 2009. 2 Closure: Nothing else to be discussed, these minutes were drawn up, read, approved and signed by the attending board members Signatures: Presiding Board: Chairman: Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh; Secretary: Ricardo Leonel Scavazza. Board of Directors’ Members: Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh, Luiz Otavio Reis de Magalhães, Octavio Lopes Castello Branco Neto, Antonio Carlos de Freitas Valle, Angela Regina Rodrigues de Paula Freitas, Olimpio Matarazzo Neto e Sergio Vicente Bicicchi. Elected Directors: Antonio Carbonari Netto (Chief Executive Officer), José Luis Poli (Vice President Academic Officer), Ricardo Leonel Scavazza (Vice President Chief Operating Officer), Marcos Lima Verde Guimarães Junior (Financial Officer), Maria Elisa Ehrhardt Carbonari (Institutional Program Officer), Alex Carbonari (Development Officer), José Augusto Teixeira (Chief Planning Officer and Investor Relations Officer). São Paulo, May 8, 2009. I certify this present instrument is a free English translation of the Minutes drawn up in the Company’s records. Presiding Board: ________________________________ Alexandre Teixeira de Assumpção Saigh Chairman ________________________________ Ricardo Leonel Scavazza Secretary 3