The article discusses the difficulties of commitment of the public municipal education system with the local demands for Professional Education, taking in consideration the possibility to do it through a Contribution Regimen among the federate beings. In order to demonstrate these reflections, the article shows some of the results of a research conducted in various municipalities of the State of Rio de Janeiro. As a general result we conclude that the Government Cooperation through the Contribution System is still timid and fragile when it comes to professional education, creating space for the private sector (the S System as Senai, Senat among others) to fill this gap. On the other hand, the scientific production in this field is in its early stages, making it difficult to understand the role of Professional Education in the scope of the educational systems, mainly in the municipal sphere as an object of cooperation among the federate beings.
Professional education; Contribution regimen; Basic education; Privatization of the education