This paper assesses the current National Plan for Education (NPE), the political logic of its progress and its approval by the National Congress. It emphasizes the conceptions of education and of State in dispute, its structural and short-term limits as a public policy, as well as the outlines referring to basic and higher education. It also presents reflections and indications on this theme and highlights the historical need for the proposition and collective construction of the new 2011-2020 NPE, so that it constitutes an effective state policy for education.
National Plan for Education; Education policy; Education; Evaluation; Management