Os desafios das políticas públicas em educação básica no Brasil : proposta de federalização da educação básica

Abstract

The federative pact, inclusive and collaborating, foreseen in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, grants autonomy to all federated entities. But -in spite of current legislation determining that educational management shall be shared between the Union, the states and the local governments in favor of a simultaneous and co-existent functioning of the educational system-, there is a faction promoting the federalization of Brazilian education. This faction rises under the context of dissatisfaction in vast areas of society with education management, educator’s pay grades, educator’s training and hiring processes, as well as low student performance indicators. This exposes a lack of organicity between public politics, programs and actions imposed by the federal government in a centralizing and contradictory fashion, and the disregard to the reciprocal collaboration regime between federated entities, thus setting the conditions for proposals such as the Federalization of Basic Education to arise, rooted in the fact that Brazilian scholar reality, excluding and selective as it is, is permeated by regional, ethnic and economical disparities.