ABSTRACT
The text analyzes the Brazilian educational policy from the last decades of the 20th century and early 21st century. It examines how the management and educational planning were set up in the different governments which took place during over the period from 1964 to 1985, corresponding to the military regime guided by the economic growth and national security ideology. It considers the democratic phase succeeded as a period of changes towards the country's integration into the economic globalization process, which has affected school planning and management, notably in the context of the 1995 State Reform. The text also analyses the period 2003-2014, when a new type of school planning was instituted in 2007 by the Articulated Actions Plan (AAR). The Plan main objective is to establish a culture of planning in the municipal education and elementary schools as an instrument to consolidate the local autonomy.
Keywords:
Educational planning; Educational management; Local autonomy