As práticas corruptivas no setor da educação pública, seus efeitos para a sociedade brasileira e o controle social como forma de combater a corrupção.

Abstract

This paper presents a reflection on the crisis in the public education system due to the lack of funds to maintain a quality education that meets the minimum conditions for students, including the provision of didactic material, teacher training, school meals, transportation and adequate physical structure. The study analyzes ways to curb corruptive practices by the public administration in relation to the Brazilian education sector, since corruption is a social, political and institutional problem. The research aimed to find mechanisms that demonstrate that social control and transparency are ways to combat corruption that affects the Brazilian educational system. The study is based on bibliographical research, with the objective of finding answers to the following problem: how the Municipal Education Council can be effective in combating corruption that plagues public education in our country? The theme is in line with the Post-Graduate Program in Law - Master and Doctorate - of the University of Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC), in the research line of Contemporary Constitutionalism, because it seeks to understand how to institute effective public policies in the fight against corruption. For the proposed research, we start with some considerations about the fundamental social right to education guaranteed in the Federal Constitution of 1988, understood as duties of the State, and the realization of these rights through public policies. In the sequence, the possibility of popular participation through the Municipal Councils of Education is analyzed as a way of having social control in the education sector at the local level. And, finally, it is observed that in fact, with the participation of citizens in the decision-making of the public administration, the quality of public education tends to improve, since municipal councilors representing civil society have the power to deliberate and supervise on educational issues at the municipal level, thus avoiding the misapplication of public money.