This article discusses an experience of Public Administration of Education in the city of São Carlos. This research tries to analyze impediments and difficulties of municipal administration of public education; it also can be considered a contribution, in the way that it recovers proposals, actions and the necessary cautions related to difficulties that public organisms of municipal education have. Right after the municipality and its education data introduction, this text approaches to questions related to the organization of municipal education and problems related to social control of education. Finally, it analyzes, in a more detailed way, processes, propositions, dynamics and difficulties identified in the first semester of 2001, the term focused in this article.
administration of education system; education politics