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Sistemas de Ensino Privados na Educação Pública: Consequências da mercantilização para o direito à educação (Private Education Systems in Public Education: Consequences of Commodification for the Right to Education)

The final report of the homonymous research that sought to map the presence of private education systems of the five largest education companies operating in the country in Brazilian municipalities and their impacts on the availability, accessibility, adaptability and acceptability of the right to education.

Support: Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Políticas Educacionais (Research and Study Group on Educational Policy) / Open Society Foundation

This research examines how the five largest companies selling private education systems – Abril Educação, Objetivo, Pearson, Positivo, and Santillana – have expanded its market to Brazilian municipalities by selling packages of services and materials, transforming, in many cases, public schools registrations on stock exchanges.

The report points out that “the abrupt and poorly planned primary schooling in the last two decades … has exposed the precariousness of many of the local administrations, generating a promising market for private counseling in the pedagogical and management fields.”

The text goes on to note that this situation encourages the “dissemination of private logic in public education and the influence of business players in the management of educational policy,” which occurs “to the detriment of democratic participation mechanisms and the strengthening of players committed to structuring of public education systems.”

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