This paper discusses the funding of the education of young people and adults as a fundamental right, from 1996 to 2006. It focuses on the empirical study of Minas Gerais State and that of a sample of 24 municipalities, their availability of municipal schools, funding capacity and public spending on the education of young people and adults. The study object relates to the guidelines for: a) the decentralization of educational funding and services, attached to the federative issue, to the division of responsibilities of subnational governments and to the municipalization of education through fund policy; b) focus on regular primary education, as well as on its beneficiaries (the younger and the poorer); and c) privatization, expressed in the form of partnerships as well as the request to the voluntary spirit of civil society. We conclude that the funding for the Education of Young People and Adults is a dimension of the democratization of Brazil that has not been implemented.
education of young people and adults; education funding; public policy; law; municipalities
