One Eye on the Cost, The Other on the Benefit: is full-time school viable in the rural areas?

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Nilce
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Cândido Alberto da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; spa
• Título da fonte: Meta: avaliação (Rio de Janeiro)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.cesgranrio.org.br/index.php/metaavaliacao/article/view/147
• topic: Full-time school; Rural Education; School performance assessment; Educational costs; Escuela de tiempo completo; Educacion rural; Evaluacion escolar; Costos educacionales; Escola de tempo integral; Educação do campo; Avaliação escolar; Custos educacionais

Considering the educational policy of gradually expanding the school hours, this article addresses the experience and costs of a rural municipal school offering full-time education in the municipality of Palmas, Tocantins state, located in the Amazon Valley. The research project’s objective is to evaluate the achievement of the goals set out in the school’s proposal by analyzing the perceptions of the school community (teachers, pedagogical coordinators, principal, educational advisor, parents and students) and also to estimate the direct cost/student involved. These figures were compared with the cost/student-initial quality for the first and last years of grade school education and the cost/student/per annum estimated by the Fundo de Manutencao e Desenvolvimento da Educação Basica e de Valorização dos Profissionais da Educação –Fundeb (Fund for the Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and Valorization of the Education Professionals), which provided remarks about its financial feasibility. In spite of the most elevated value of cost/student, the expansion and renovation of the facilities will favor a greater achievement of the objectives of the pedagogic project.