A atuação do conselho estadual de acompanhamento e controle social frente a fiscalização da aplicação dos recursos do FUNDEB

Abstract

Brazilian public education is financed by the Fund for the Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and the Valorization of Education Professionals (FUNDEB). In this way, to monitor the application of these resources in order to avoid possible irregularities, the Monitoring and Social Control Council (CACS) was created. The present work sought to identify the performance of the Monitoring and Social Control Council (CACS) regarding the inspection of the application of FUNDEB resources, limited to the state of Alagoas, called CEFUNDEB. The methodology that underlies this study is a qualitative and descriptive research that confronts the reality of the council with what is advocated in Brazilian legislation. It comes from bibliographical research on educational funding policies, social control, Brazilian legislation, and guidelines located on the website of the National Fund for Education Development (FNDE). The result obtained during the interviews is that the performance of the council in Alagoas differs in some points from the Brazilian legislation. In other words, it is worrying that a council responsible for overseeing the application of resources is operating far from the law, thus generating points of attention that are corroborated by complaints made by civil society, leaving open the need to have major consideration by Organs responsible bodies.