Políticas públicas em educação : a governabilidade e a governança na aplicação dos recursos orçamentários do fundo de manutenção e desenvolvimento do ensino fundamental e de valorização do magistério - FUNDEF, no município de Santos (1998-2006)

Abstract

Monitoring and evaluating public policies have been a major challenge for all those who care about the quality of public services delivered by the State. Financing policies, particularly those pertaining to education, arouse even more attention and concern. It is necessary to extract from experience of ten years since the implementation of FUNDEF - Fund for the Maintenance and Development of Fundamental Education and Valorization of Professorship, the deficiencies left during its implementation, highlighting those related to the way of conducting such an important public policy for education funding and the exercise of power by its managers. In this master dissertation assignment, it is intended, taking the professional experience of the researcher as the head of Santos City Hall budget department during the period covered by the survey, to establish the existence, or not, of the influence of power in conducting the budgetary policy ¿ related to the allocation and distribution of resources for FUNDEF. With a qualitative approach but with the support of quantitative elements, we sought elements for the consolidation of the results through documentary research. Power is approached always with the aim of trying to understand the influences that political actors, as drivers of public policy, have when defining the amounts to be invested, understood here as all amounts allocated for the education policy execution, adopting the analysis of budget planning and execution.