By means of legal instruments, the value attributed to (or the appreciation of) basic education professionals is analyzed in face of the implementation of the Fundeb and the National Professional Wage Floor (NPWF) within the context of Brazilian federative relations. The research was based on documents and the relevant literature. Within Brazilian federative relations, the educational policies could contribute to the design of the federal coordination as such policies could express, on the one hand, signs of federal collaboration regarding the reduction of social inequalities. On the other hand, the exercise of local power still represents a hindrance to federal coordination due to the educational policy, which would determine the strong inductor power of the Union, among other situations, regarding the deployment of the NPWF.
Educational policy; Brazilian federative relations; Fundeb; National Professional Wage Floor