The directions of the politics called "municipalização" (kind of decentralization to the counties based on municipal management) of initial series teaching have been discussed because were defined with anteriority to the constitution of Fund of Maintenance and Development of the Fundamental Teaching - Fundef, in a way that demonstrates the transfer of such responsibility to the municipality in state of Paraná precedes the creation of the referred Found, although this, the intensification of the "municipalização" have been one of their main purposes.
education decentralization to countries; economy of education; elementary school financing in Paraná/Brazil