Privatizações na Educação Básica no Tocantins: Parcerias Público-Privadas X Regime de Colaboração Público-Público

Abstract

This research is part of the State Line, Society and Educational Practices of the Post-Graduation Program of Education of the Federal University of Tocantins. The government of Tocantins, through the Secretary of Education (SEDUC), has established partnerships starting in 2016 with private and non-profit organizations such as Ayrton Senna Institute, Lemman Institute, Instituto Itaú, Instituto Sonho Grande, Instituto Natura and Education Stewardship Institute. The justification is to improve the results and the quality of the management, teaching and learning processes in state education. In this context, this research has as its theme public-private partnerships in the State Teaching System of Tocantins, since its creation in 1994. It is questioned: how the redefinitions in the role of the State, from the 1950s, with the State of Social Welfare, until the 1990s, with the Neoliberal State and the proposal of the Third Way, have influenced (they have been influencing) the redefinition of public policies and management for the field of education? Are there any possibilities/evidence of partnerships established between SEDUC and the private sector since the creation of the State System of Education in 1994? What are the objects and actions of the public-private partnerships established in the State of Tocantins? What are the objects and actions of the public-private partnerships instituted in the State of Tocantins in the context of the second decade of the 21st century and its implications for the field of public education? Are there relations between public-private partnerships and compliance with the State Education Plan 2015-2025? This leads the government, represented by SEDUC, to establish partnerships with the private sector, to define policies and management of education, to the detriment of the system of collaboration with public institutions of higher education present in the State, such as the Federal University of Tocantins, the Federal Institute of Education of Tocantins and the State University of Tocantins? The purpose of this study is to analyze how public-private partnerships have influenced and are influencing the redefinition of public policies and management in the State of Tocantins Education System, since its creation in 1994. Based on a critical perspective, research has a qualitative approach, with data and information collected with bibliographic review and documentary research. The direct participation of self-appointed non-profit institutions in the management of public education, identified as members of the third sector, is based on the Master Plan for Reform of the State Apparatus / 1995 and on Constitutional Amendment No. 19/1998, mechanisms pointed out as being more relevant to expansion of such partnerships in Brazil. Taking as reference Constitutional Amendment No. 59/2009 and strategy of goal 23 of the Education Plan of Tocantins / 2015-2025, we work with the possibility of building public-public partnerships, between SEDUC And public institutions of higher education in Tocantins. On the contrary, this possible privatizing tendency of education in Tocantins contradicts principles guaranteed in the Federal Constitution of 1988 and in the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education 9,394 / 1996, as the pluralism of ideas and pedagogical conceptions, the autonomy of the teacher and the democratic management of public education.