Conselho escolar: instrumento para melhoria da qualidade da educação escolar - uma experiência em Fortaleza

Abstract

The formation of the School Council - Conselho Escolar – in all public schools is a condition required to enable the school to receive financial resources, once the Council has the prerogative to manage, to deliberate about priorities and to administrate such resources, which warrants its own existence. However, this is not sufficient to comply with the legal requirements. Therefore, it is to be ensured the full exercise of its other functions: consultative, deliberative, normative and evaluative. This essay intends to report the experience developed by the author with the School Councils circumscribed to the area of Secretaria Executiva Regional I, of the administration of the Municipality of Fortaleza, to share methods, mechanisms and instruments which may contribute for the adequate functioning of School Councils, for the efficient and efficacious accomplishment of their purposes. Because of the characteristics of this essay it was made the option by the qualitative approach and it has been used the direct observation and the questionnaire as the most appropriate techniques to the data collection. In the evaluation of the experience it has been outlined the advances and identified difficulties which may be overcome. It has been concluded that School Council- Conselho Escolar- is an essential instrument to propitiate the conscious participation of all segments which comprise the school, to enlarge and to intensify the internal and external relations, and to promote the democratization of the school management, as well as improvement of the quality of services rendered by the school and to facilitate the participation of teachers, staff, students and their parents in the school routine.