O financiamento no contexto das “parcerias” público-privadas com as Organizações da Sociedade Civil – OSCS: repercussões no direito à Educação Infantil em Uberlândia – MG

Abstract

This thesis, located in the line of research State, Politics, and Management of Education, has as its general objective, to discuss the take over of education by neoliberalism, having as assumptions the business reform of education and the “new managerialism” and its repercussion in the right. to education, especially Early Childhood Education. And it has the following specific objectives: 1) to investigate privatization projects, against the backdrop of public-private partnerships put into practice throughout the federal governments from Fernando Henrique Cardoso – FHC to the mandate of Jair Bolsonaro, and in particular in the Romeu Zema’s office, governor of the state of Minas Gerais; 2) research, map and discuss theoretical and legal assumptions about the right to education, its funding and public-private relations; 3) analyze the volume of funding made available by the Municipal Secretary of Education in partnership with partner private institutions; and 4) understand the public policy of the municipality of Uberlândia for Early Childhood Education when establishing partnerships/agreements with Civil Society Organisation (CSOs), and its impact on the right to education. The central problematization, which guides this study, is defined as follows: how does the privatization of Early Childhood Education through public-private relations/agreement with Civil Society Organizations – CSOs have an impact on the right to Early Childhood Education in the municipality of Uberlândia-MG? To achieve the proposed objectives, we carried out a bibliographical research and documental analysis. We based the documentary analysis on the help of several authors and on historical-dialectical materialism. In this sense, the empirical categories captured from our object were: initial and continued training of education professionals, adequate working conditions, democratic management and the deficit of professionals in relation to the number of students. The research empirically evidenced the announced thesis, that the privatization of Early Childhood Education, through public-private relations/agreement with CSOs in the municipality of Uberlândia, contributes to intensify the asymmetry of the educational offer within the same teaching network; enhances the degeneration of democratic management; produces collapses in the historical accomplishments with regard to teaching appreciation; and intensifies labor precariousness both through outsourced contracts and teaching work, without offering basic conditions, such as adequate initial and continued training. In addition, the government's decision to maintain and expand the agreement has a direct impact on the right to education.