This paper discusses the current education policies in order to analyze the context that gave birth to the National Education Conference (CONAE), its main proposal, and what happened afer it, until the bill (PL 8.035/10) on the new National Education Plan (PNE) was presented. The principal objective this Conference was to create a national education system. The text tries to understand the reasons for such a proposition, afer two decades of reforms towards decentralization and deregulation, as well as the concepts that can guide the organization of the education system. Finally, it explores the relationship between Federal government policies and State policy, questioning the challenges and possibilities of changes on the legal plan that the current key problems in Brazilian education could have to face. It thus demonstrates a huge contradiction since the system advocated at the CONAE was not included in the bill proposing the new PNE.
Education policy; National Education System; Education management