ABSTRACT
The article presents the first results of a research that investigates a new way of managing educational systems through the promotion of institutional arrangements for territorial management of education through Public Consortia (CP) and Education Development Arrangements (ADE) in public-private partnership. This is to be seen the background of conceptual and operational gaps of the collaboration regime and the forms of cooperation of Brazilian federalism and the silence of the federal government over the institution of the National Education System. From the analysis of documents and semi-structured interviews with subjects involved in the process, the study seeks to investigate under which legal systems, conceptions and political interests such arrangements are based, as they have been disseminated in the country, demonstrating the ongoing initiatives in the state of Bahia with the Public Consortia under the governmental initiative. The preliminary results indicate the growth of public-private partnerships within the scope of the New Public Management principles that support the conformation of the arrangements, through corporate governance networks of educational policy that are resistant to progressive guidelines, with interests in the rupture of democratic processes in the management of education, through the ADEs, a market strategy to consolidate the reach of their profitable goals.
Keywords:
Public Consortium; Education Development Arrangements; Territorial management; Education shared management