Os desafios da gestão escolar na implantação do Programa Primeira Escola em duas unidades infantis: limites e possibilidades

Abstract

This paper examines the vacancies distribution criteria of early childhood education, as determined by the First School Program, and their impact on management of UMEIs, fucusing the study on two schools in the municipal education of Belo Horizonte: Delfim Moreira and Timbiras UMEIs. In order to do so, the path of municipal public education and early childhood education in Belo Horizonte are described, presenting challenges and advances in care and the political decision of the municipal government of Belo Horizonte in creating the First College Program to expand its own UMEIS network and the criteria of the policy guideline in the distribution of vacancies. The implementation context of the First School Program, the care, the problems experienced in the management of the UMEIs are presented and analyzed in this context. Following, the research gets in touch with the design and the cycle of such policy, as well as with the desertion and frequency data found in both units, intending to point out some suggestions for managers of the two schools involved in this study, thus being able to optimize and minimize the impact on management of these UMEIs. Understanding that this study points to the two schools suggestions related to the distribution of vacancies and that any change must to be approved by the Municipal Education Office of Belo Horizonte, this research will be forwarded to this office serving as a pilot project to propose changes in the vacancy distribution policy in both Schools.