The paper presents final results of an interinstitutional research that aimed analyses the nature and the consequences of partnerships between private sectors and local governments in the State of São Paulo to face childhood and fundamental education demands. The studied period was 1996 to 2006, due the perception that the municipalization process could stimulate the outsourcing and privatization of local education. The study presents the ways of partnership: public subvention to offer places in private institutions of childhood education, buy private educational "systems" and private consultancy to education local administration. The tendencies that emerge from the analysis show that the current relationships between the public and private sectors represent a movement towards the privatization.
Privatization; Partnerships; Course pack systems; Subvention; Consultancy to administration
