Gestão de recursos da educação: um estudo de caso sobre planejamento e avaliação de resultados no município de Nova Petrópolis

Abstract

This work seeks to elucidate the availability of information about the student cost in the city of Nova Petrópolis, and understand how this is used for planning and evaluation process of the results of public education services, without disregarding the quality aspect of teaching. The research is based on internal documents and published information in data banks, trying to establish comparative with other municipalities and with the private initiative in terms of the relationship between student cost and quality of education. Even if there is sufficient information for the elaboration of the Economic Result Demonstration. The search strategy is a case study, covering a survey data, trying to get more in-depth information on the subject. It is descriptive as to the objectives and, as the approach, qualitative. As the information generated internally by the institution it is not discharged the student cost, making it impossible to draw up the ERD at the current moment. The accounting by competence, requirement for the counting of costs incurred during a particular period, should be completed only in 2014. As the researched information, available in external databases, refers to the spending per student, not the costs incurred in the period, and the total invested in education, and may cause distortions in the analyzes performed. If compared with other municipalities, and trying to relate with the Index of Development of Basic Education, the municipality of Nova Petrópolis presents significant results. This index is taken into account in the process of planning and evaluation of results of the Municipality, yet not sufficiently formalized in Multiannual Plan.