Educação e Filosofia
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Abstract
ADRIAO, Theresa. Escolas Charters nos EUA: contradições de uma tendência proposta para o Brasil e suas implicações para a oferta da educação pública. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.1es, pp.263-282. ISSN 1982-596X. https://doi.org/10.6801/201412esp016.
This article analyzes at recent American context, the trend of expanding a model of educational provision called Charter School. Leaned on the international literature on the subject and collected information on research developed at a Washington DC Charter School. The assumption is that this model is shaped in a form of privatization of educational provision, considering it as a mechanism for public subsidy to institutions managed by the private sector which has been proposed by Foundations and Government as an alternative to Basic Education in Brazil.
Keywords : Public Subsidy; Charter Schools; Contracts; Privatisation; Choice in Education.