ABSTRACT:
This study aimed to understand the reconfiguration process of the propositions that bind special education and the regular education of students with disabilities, considering the investment on alternative spaces - such as specialized service centers - as a possibility to complement support to schooling. As a qualitative research study in the methodological action plan, the study based on the analysis of documents in the context of a municipal public education system in Porto Alegre/RS metropolitan area. The study was based on research that approach public policies of education topics, having as main reference the works of Stephen Ball on policy cycle. It is concluded that the special education reconfiguration in this municipal system has been restructured based on the double mandatory enrollment as a legal argument that boosted the practices to make the schooling of students with disabilities mandatory in regular schools, in regular classes. This reconfiguration had as its axis the transformation of the municipal public special schools that served students with disabilities in special education service centers.
KEYWORDS:
Special Education; Special Education Services; School Inclusion