Política pública e direito à educação infantil de boa qualidade: a situação dasUMEIs na municipalidade de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The article focuses on the difficulty faced by the municipality of Belo Horizonte - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil - to ensure universal access to quality childhood education in its UMEIs - Municipal Infant Education Units, which has caused a great deal of lawsuits against the municipality, rendering the proper administrative management of the matter unfeasible. It is in this context that the study suggests adopting “school subsidy” as a complementary public policy to solve or reduce the negative effects of the situation, on a transitional or permanent basis. An analytical-descriptive methodology was used in the paper, with the support of legal dogmatic methods and the presentation of statistical data, as well as reference to legislation, case-law and legal studies. Universal access to good quality childhood education as a fundamental right and human right to be provided by the State, with the collaboration of the private sector, is the structuring theoretical framework on which the article is built. From such point, the paper addresses the issue of costs for the implementation of educational entitlements and the need for public policies that extend good childhood schools in a sustainable way.