Abstract

TRAVITZKI, Rodrigo  and  CASSIO, Fernando Luiz. Class size in the São Paulo state public schools (Brazil): public system management on the margin of educational inequalities. ETD [online]. 2017, vol.19, suppl., pp.159-183. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v19i0.8647765.

This paper investigates the effect of class size of the final years of Elementary School of the State of São Paulo public system in the performance of students in a National Exam (Prova Brasil), using consecrated methodologies from economic studies. The study evaluates the effect of class size on three socioeconomic strata, and the results suggest that the São Paulo current policies tend to reduce the performances of two-thirds of students and increase inequality among strata. The paper also presents a historical series of class size in the State of São Paulo, identifying change in the trend from the School Reorganization of 2015. It also discusses the logic of ordinary management of the school system and the role of public access to educational data and indicators of the state in understanding structural policies that operate on the margins of social inequalities.

Keywords : Quality (Education); Class Size; Education Policy; Right to Education; Education Economics; São Paulo (Brazilian State).

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