Eficiência e produtividade dos gastos públicos da educação fundamental do município de Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

Given the importance of education and the reduction of public resources in this area, the efficient management of these resources is essential. For this reason, the present study regards as problematic the existence of a relationship between efficiency and productivity of public spending, in the initial years of Santa Maria/RS municipal schools, in the period from 2010 to 2014. Thus, the objective was to analyze comparatively the efficiency and productivity of public expenditures at this stage of school education in the municipality of Santa Maria/RS. Regarding to the methodological framework, this research is characterized as descriptive, documentary and qualitative, with efficiency data calculated using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method and productivity established by the Brazilian Basic Development Index (IDEB). The operation of the data was given by BCC model output orientation. The results obtained from standard efficiency and normalized composite efficiency demonstrated the schools considered efficient and inefficient in the allocation of resources, whereas in 2010 seven schools were efficient, in 2012 eight schools were considered efficient and in 2014 only five schools. The schools considered inefficient had their respective targets, to achieve efficiency, presented by the DEA method. In the three years of the study, the majority of them were above the goals set by the Federal Government. It can be concluded that, for the years studied, it was not possible to establish a relationship between efficiency and productivity.