A política pública de inclusão educacional de pessoas com deficiência na rede pública municipal de Santo André

Abstract

This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of public policy on inclusion of people with disabilities in regular classrooms in Santo André - SP, deployed in 2000. The evaluation has a municipal dimension, as part of the analysis of the implementation of CADE (Centro de Atenção ao Desenvolvimento Educacional), section of the Department of Municipal Education responsible for assessing students with disabilities, promoting their inclusion in schools, monitoring their development and enableing the training of educators, giving them the necessary support for your practice. In its trajectory, CADE promoted the expansion in the number of inclusions in the schools of the county, from 50 in 2000 to 950 in 2011. Throughout the chapters, were described factors that enabled this growth in the number of visits, data on implementation and policy development in the municipality and teacher training related to the theme of inclusion, data and research analysis applied to a sample of school teachers; reflections in order to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the processand and, especially, propose actions that allow the improvement of the policy in the city, by the improvement and support of teachers work.