This work has the intend to analyse the technologies of power which have been serving as basis for educational practices of nowadays. In this context, these practices point out to a contemporary school as a strategic space of life management. Sharing questions from research conducted in public schools, discusses the effects of new government processes of life that has been intensifying in school life, emphasizing the liberal arts and to govern the lives weave new practice of standardization of different classic technologies of disciplinary power. He points out that the medicalization of learning and the judicialization of school issues have been constituted as a control device biopolitical modes of existence. Conclusion indicating that changes in the educational process require interference in the operating mode of the policies and the regime of enunciation than has been configured as a problem and challenge to be faced by the public school.
public schools; power technologies; medicalization; judicialization