A parceria público-privada na expansão da educação infantil no município de Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

This research deals with the issue of the purchase of places by the municipality of Santa Maria in private schools. The research is part of the line LP2 - Public Policies and Educational Management, of the Postgraduate Specialization Course in Latu Sensu in Educational Management and Public Policies at the Federal University of Santa Maria. This research aims to investigate how the agreements between private institutions and the public power have been happening in the scope of early childhood education in the municipality of Santa Maria/RS, in addition, it collects data on the number of places that were purchased in early childhood education, there are how long the agreements have been established and what measures the responsible bodies have been taking to terminate the agreement. It is a qualiquantitative research and its contributions are bibliographic research, a documental analysis of public policies related to early childhood education and an interview with one of the teachers responsible for the area of Early Childhood Education at the Municipal Education Department of Santa Maria/RS. During this research, it was possible to observe that the municipality of Santa Maria/ RS has been adhering to the purchase of places in private schools for a long time and uses this as a strategy to fulfill the goal number 01 of the PNE, which determines the universalization of access to early childhood education for preschool age children. This practice of buying vacancies has proved to be a very solid strategy, which strengthens the public-private relationship, and which, in a way, ends up contributing to the transfer of public funds to private institutions.