Abstract

The article discusses the democratization of education from two interrelated themes: the National Education Plan (NEP) and the proposal for the creation of a National Education System (NES), focusing on the recent history of the development of these plans in Brazil, as well as the process of creation of the NES. The study analyzes the process of discussion of Law 8035/10, which concerns to the new NEP, highlighting some contradictions of this process as towards goals and assumptions of the National Education Conference 2010 – CONAE. A comparison is made between the proposals of the CONAE and the text of the new Law on issues of concerning democratic management of education and the relationship between public and private in the educational provision. Finally, some points for discussion were presented on the role of the possibilities that the new Law contributes to the realization of the right to education in the country, stressing that the new law presents some progress on several issues, but it can mean setbacks and the democratization of education, considering the different forms of privatization present in educational policies.

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