Financing Education

The debates on the implementation of teacher career plans represent education workers’ search for professional development in aspects such as entry procedures, working hours, planning hours, progression, promotion and working conditions. In Minas Gerais, the new guidelines for valuing teachers, with the creation of a career plan for education workers and an increase in remuneration based on funding (FUNDEF/FUNDEB), took place in the same context as the policy of fiscal adjustment and shrinking of the state advocated by the program called Management Shock. The competition between these two elements meant a dispute between projects on the issue of valorization, with the public administration on one side and the teaching professionals on the other. This work studies the impacts of this competition on education funding in Minas Gerais, in terms of the valorization of teachers in the state’s public basic education network. With this analysis, we hope to contribute to the field of Educational Public Policy, as well as filling in some of the gaps in the public funding structure of the state’s education network.