The text discusses an element of public politics, the Municipal Education Plan (PME) of the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It analyzes the Plan in its different stages and in its Legislative and Municipal Education Council process. It considers the actors involved in the different moments of the process, the affirmed and denied speeches, ideologies and world's point of views. The text's content is important because it suggests elements to evaluate the PME as an educational policy paper in a reflexive perspective. It indicates how the speeches in PME are maintained/articulated, the ambiguous way which the actors record their presence/writing and make themselves responsible for the PME in its different phases, the National Plan of Education as a paradigm that dilutes and stifles a possible cognitive-interpretative peculiar approach of the world that the PME may represent in the scope of the town.
Educational politics; Planning; Municipal education