Charter schools and the new FUNDEB: the necessary obstacle to privatization and the attempts to overthrow it in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Nazareth, Henrique Dias Gomes de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: FINEDUCA - Revista de Financiamento da Educação
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/fineduca/article/view/113290
• topic: FUNDEB. Charter Schools. Privatization of Education. Social Organizations and Education. Funding for Education.; FUNDEB. Escolas Charter. Privatização da Educação. Organizações Sociais e Educação. Financiamento da Educação.; Escolas charter

This article departs from a provocative fact: the tentative of FUNDEB to allow the privatization of its resources. The objective is understand how FUNDEB has been an obstacle for the implementation of charter schools in Brazil. Through a documental analysis, we also review other initiatives that aimed to change the rules of the fund. The text is divided into the following sections: a detailed description of the attempt to include private entities in the new FUNDEB; a scrutiny of past actions that occurred in the legislative branch that intended the same goal; and the exposition of a program that initially tried to use FUNDEB resources in charter schools. We conclude by showing that the FUNDEB rules are significant barriers to the pro-charter movement in Brazil and that the legislative context is an important area of dispute. Understanding these obstacles is essential for a resistance movement in favor of defending the right to education.