Public Education and Corporations: advances and contradictions in one decade of expansion of investments in Brazil

Abstract

This paper, an exploratory work, is based on primary and secondary sources and seeks to contribute to the critical reflection concerning governmental policies options that involved the expansion of the symbiosis between governments and the private sector corporate segments or associated with it. In order to do that, the allocation of federal resources in the period 2002-2014 is considered. In that period, the education expenditure (in comparison to the GDP ratio) and the mandatory period of education increased, alongside with the strengthening of “venture philanthropy” and corporations in the provision of services to education public systems. The results point to the need of more detailed research about the transference of public funds to the private sector.

Keywords

• privatização. fundos públicos. filantropia de risco.