The main purpose of this paper is to analyze how Carneiro Leão and Fernando de Azevedo managed the Directorate of Public Instruction of the Federal District. It discusses the idea that the reforms of school education in the city of Rio de Janeiro were not exactly the result of institutional arrangements defined. For this reason, the research effort goes toward understand something of what meant driving public education capital of the Brazil during that time. The focus of discussion is the way public education in the Federal District was administered in 1920' years.
Reform of education; public administration; school; Carneiro Leão and Fernando de Azevedo