Efetividade do direito à educação: análise da atuação da Promotoria de Campina Grande - PB

Abstract

The results presented by Brazil in education show that the country faces several difficulties to ensure quality education to its citizens, thus emerging the need to improve the means capable of helping to fulfill the right to education. In this scenario, this study aims to analyze the role of the Public Ministry (MP) in defending the right to education, especially in the inspection and monitoring of public educational policies for basic education, under the Education Prosecutor of Campina Grande - PB , with jurisdiction also in the municipalities of Boa Vista, Lagoa Seca and Massaranduba, in the period between the years 2012 and 2020. To achieve the proposed objective, research was developed with a legal-social, exploratory and descriptive nature, from bibliographic review and analysis of secondary data, as well as documentary research. In the context of empirical research, questionnaires were applied to Public Prosecutors working in the area, in order to outline the agency's performance from a practical point of view. It was concluded that most of the demands that reach the Public Prosecutor's Office concern the physical structure of public schools and that the Public Ministry plays an important role in complying with legislation and in mediating conflicts. It was found that, in individual issues, those relating to small public expenditures and for which there are specific resources, the agency's performance was more efficient. Respondents pointed out some obstacles to performance that allowed them to verify that institutional performance can and should be improved. In addition, the study allowed us to see that the realization of the right to education must also involve raising citizens' awareness of the social role they must play in monitoring public policies and that it is essential to give education the prominent role it holds as one of the most important keys to human, social and economic development.