Performance of education agents in the formulation of new High School

Abstract

Political agents affect the definition and direction of government agenda and, consequently, the formulation of public policies. Owing to their importance for the direction in public policies, their participation in the Provisional Measure 746/2016 on the reform of the Brazilian High School is analyzed. Agents of the public and private sector, particularly the educational business groups, are identified. Current research aimed at identifying the agents in the formulation of this type of educational policy; understand the relationship between agents; and build a network of public policies, mapping the interactions that state agents have established with each other and with the protagonists outside the institution to identify the role of private agents in the new configuration of governance made possible by the networks. Methodology foregrounded a qualitative and quantitative study based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of public policy networks. A documentary survey of primary and secondary sources was made, namely, MP 746/2016 and the 568 proposed amendments, coupled to the nominal vote at the end of the process of formulating the public policy, and in the collection of information in the news published in the Folha de São Paulo between 2016 and 2017. Results obtained in the two stages of the research showed an approach between the discourse adopted by parliamentarians in the amendments proposed during the vote in the Senate so that MP 746/2016 would become law, and in interactions they established with each other during the process.