Abstract
This paper discusses the ever present in the long political history of Brazilian education social discrimination and inequality at school. The main objective is to demonstrate the cyclic movements of educational achievements and suppression of rights, seeking to provide better grounds for the current educational debates in relation to the governmental imposition through parliamentary coup and growing social political conservatism. However brief, this study was conducted by investigation of various documental sources, such as legislations, reports, government official communications, newspaper articles, statistical census, as well as dialogue with historians and education historians.
Keywords:
schooling; school inequality; social discrimination