The quality promotion of the fundamental education in a municipality from the South of the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Abstract

This research is part of the doctoral dissertation which had the objective of analyzing the management of the financing of public policies which ensure the far-reaching and free offering of basic education, specifically the fundamental education, of a municipality from the South of Minas Gerais (Brazil), for the purpose of assessing whether the available and managed resources have had any effect on the commonly used indicators for measuring the quality of education. In order to attain this objective, it was performed a case study, in which the data collection was held through the Transparency Portals of public bodies, interviews and surveys, and the data were analyzed by the content analysis method. The collected data were compared with the mensurable indicators which assist the promotion of the quality of education, being analyzed by the approach of the input and results. Therefore, it can be inferred from the analyze of the results that there is not an abundance of financial resources to the achievement of all the necessities of basic education, and there is no conducive planning of the costing expenditure and investing that propitiate and increase the quality of education in the medium and long term.