As contribuições do Programa Bolsa Família para redução do abandono escolar

Abstract

The following research was developed in the range of the Professional Master degree in Education Management and Evaluation (PPGP) of the Center of Public Policies and Evaluation of Education of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAED/UFJF). The management case studied described and discussed the Bolsa Família Program and other policies to combat school drop-out in Brazil and the state of Amazonas. It analyzed the reasons why students who benefit from the Bolsa Família Program drop out of school at the 6th District Coordination and proposed actions to help reduce drop-out in the Coordination analyzed. The objectives defined for this research study have, as a general objective, to contribute with alternatives for the reduction of school drop-out rates of the 6th District Coordination, in the prevention of dropping out of the respective schools in the picture. In addition, we set out specific objectives: 1. Identify the causes of school drop-out among students of the 6th District Coordination, verifying if the drop-out rates are students who are beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program; 2) Analyze whether the Bolsa Família Program has contributed to the reduction of school drop-out; 3) To analyze how schools implement and monitor the conditionality of attendance in the schools selected by the research; 4) To suggest possible solutions for the reduction of school drop-out rates of the 6th District Coordination schools. For this purpose, we will use as a methodology the bibliographical and field researches, as well as the quantitative and qualitative, addressing the principles of school drop-out in state schools in the capital of the 6th District Coordination of Elementary School, from 1st to 9th grade. In addition, actions will be proposed to prevent the problem, focusing on the beneficiary students of the Bolsa Família Program of the said unit of education and as a semistructured interview instrument.