Accredited school or charter school? An approach to a term of collaboration between prefecture and the third sector for the offer of basic education in Porto Alegre

Abstract

The present study analyzes if the partnerships established between the Government and the Third Sector for the provision of basic education can be configured as a charter school modality. In particular, it deals with a Collaboration Agreement signed by the Porto Alegre City Hall and a Civil Society Organization. It also analyzes how the Third Sector Regulatory Framework can serve as a contribution to the perpetration of the private sector over the public sector in the area of education through terms of collaboration between the Government and the Third Sector. The study is characterized as qualitative, using bibliographic and documentary data, anchored in the deductive-analytical method. As a result, it points out that the analyzed partnerships can be compared to charter schools, although the different nomenclature. Moreover, they represent a conception of education that is far from the ideal of democratic management, the exercise of citizenship and social emancipation.