(Dis)association between metropolitan Municipal Education Plans and other tools of local educational management

Abstract

It is possible to affirm that there are few studies on the Municipal Education Plans approved in Brazil over the period the National Education Plan 2001-2010 was in force, particularly those for the Metropolitan Regions, about which the need for knowledge becomes more evident in the face of the challenges proposed by the National Education Plan 2014-2024 to reformulate these local plans. Thus, this article intends to analyze the links provided by Municipal Education Plans in relation to other tools of local educational management taking as empirical basis the plans of ten municipalities in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro state approved in 2001-2012, aiming to outline possible internal problems, also related to planning on a metropolitan scale. It is a study with exploratory character, methodologically based on the analysis of the content of legal documents. Its general conclusions indicate, on the one hand, clear disassociations from the management tools considered in the analysis and, on the other hand, the absence a regional-metropolitan focus in those plans. It also evidences that these local and regional disassociations are major challenges to the adjustment of these plans to the new National Education Plan, postulating that such links can be provided from the understanding that an education plan is not an independent and sufficient management tool and that, although it appears to be a type of record of coordination and systematization of decisions provided to conduct the educational policies in the municipality, it is an integral part of these policies and it is not stranger to them.

Keywords Municipal Education Plan (PME); National Education Plan (PNE); Educational planning; Metropolitan planning; Rio de Janeiro