This article is part of the research “Innovative High School Program in Maranhão: training needs of teachers and innovative pedagogical practices in public schools in São Luís”, which is currently being developed at the doctoral level. It deals with the implementation, assumptions and propositions of this Program in the State of Maranhão and its impacts on the continuing education of teachers who work in the aforementioned program. Its objective is to analyze the implementation of the Program in question based on official data and documents, having as a guiding axis the multiple determinations of the socioeconomic context of contemporary society, which has required complex educational demands on schools that have been impacting the continuing education of teachers through educational policies and programs implemented by government spheres. Thus, the educational reality of Brazilian and Maranhão high school is discussed, taking as a reference for analysis mainly the results of the Basic Education Development Index – IDEB and the official documents that establish educational policies and programs as a mechanism for improving the quality of education, which require reflection and redirection of the policies for continuing education of teachers, specifically in high school. It is concluded that even with the implementation of this Program in more than 100 municipalities in Maranhão, it was still not possible to achieve better results as in IDEB and the continued training of teachers for this level of education remains under discussion due to its complexity.
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