A influência das ações gestoras na qualidade da educação pública: o caso da Escola Estadual São Francisco de Assis, em Carmo do Cajuru/MG

Abstract

Public education institutions are part of a very competitive system where they always face the biggest and most diverse social changes. They need to adapt when faced with these changes, but above all they need to prepare their students for the full exercise of citizenship, as agents of transformation mainly. The present management case, therefore, describes and analyzes the actions proposed by the management team of the São Francisco de Assis State School, located in Carmo do Cajuru, Minas Gerais, which may have corroborated for the improvement of the institution's educational indexes. For this, a series of practices adopted by the school are analyzed in order to try to overcome the situation in which it was inserted and which collaborated to improve educational quality. It was observed in the school from the year 2014, the postponement in the process of closing classes, the expansion of modalities / levels of education offered with and the resumption of the Integral and Integrated Education Project; in addition to the State Department of Education having returned to invest financial resources with greater contribution in this school. Significant improvements were observed in educational indices and results of assessments that measure the equity and quality of public education and students' proficiency; both in external evaluations and in matters related to the flow of students (approval, approval in partial progression, abandonment, reclassification, failure and transfer). The objective of the research was, therefore, to analyze how the management practices that were adopted since 2014 contributed to the improvement of these educational indexes. How the management group came to understand which and how the external and internal forces influence the school company, thus seeking efforts to overcome the challenges. As a propositional objective, an Educational Action Plan was elaborated covering some systematized practices and experiences that can be expanded to other schools. To carry out the investigation, we opted for qualitative research, which proved to be more adequate to the established purposes. Data collection included bibliographic research, document analysis and semi-structured interviews. What was found was that the management actions directly influence the quality of public education, based mainly on the premise that the good performance and competence of the school manager and his team depend on it; to organize, guide and lead school actions and processes aimed at promoting the learning and training of its students.