Impactos do FUNDEF em Cezarina, Inhumas, Senador Canedo e Teresópolis de Goiás

Abstract

This paper focuses on FUNDEF as the provider of financial resources for education and intends to identify, verify and analyze the most visible effects of its application in the towns of Cezarina, Inhumas, Senador Canedo and Teresópolis de Goiás in 1998 and 1999. These towns were chosen through a process that considered factors like municipal income, political emancipation time, area, population, location, number of municipal schools, the mayor s political party and others. The research was carried in distinct but connected phases. The first one was an initial exploratory documental and bibliographical analysis. The second phase was the field research done through interviews, o observations and forms aimed at data gathering which, in a third phase, were analyzed considering the theoretical bases and the author s personal experience on the field. The following effects were verified betterment of the teaching profession by the implantation of a legal career plan and increased and punctual payments; improvement of the teachers professional abilities by agreements among the municipalities, the State of Goiás and the educational institutions mainly UEG; school buildings and school transportation systems restructured; teaching decentralization by power sharing although not at the same level in all the researched towns; weak social control over the educational financial resources by the community who did not use the control systems due to a lack of knowledge, alienation or power centralization; disregard of the law by the fiscal and documental officials and strong discrepancies between personally and officially gathered data.