New institutional arrangements for the provisions of teachers continuous training has been performed in the Metropolitan Region of Campinas (RMC). In this article, we seek to understand how this process goes on, considerating the context for decentralized public policies and educational problems in Brazil and metropolitan governance. Investigating and examinating various indices of the lasted decade, like growth in the numbers of teachers, investments and enrollment at all levels of basic education and administrative level, we could verify certains aspects and consequences of these policies, especially when it comes to new forms of arrangements between public and private. It was noted the increased participation of various non-governmental forms, including the market in offering continuing education for teachers and educational administration as any other forms no less relevant to perform it.
teachers continuous education; decentralization; public policies
