The hypothesis analyzed in this article considered the political discourse about the establishment of a Brazilian National Education System as an expression of a new institutional arrangement for intergovernmental relations in the federative educational system. The objective of this study was to understand which elements and mechanisms draw up the analytical framework that drives the nation's public policies in education. To this end, the following documents were analyzed: the legislation that affected the institutional regulation of the relations between federated entities; the law that approved the new National Education Plan and the Complementary Law project, which aims to regulate intergovernmental relations regarding the Brazilian Education System. The study concluded that there is a discursive silence around redistributive policies and regulation of intergovernmental relations by means of non-statutory regulations.
National Education System; Intergovernmental relations in education systems; Federalism and education
