This article attempts to present an educational policy from a perspective of territory and how it tends to invisibility and complexity in sub-national institutions, namely the municipalities and educational department. It outlines briefly the dynamics of national education policy related to educational reforms occurring in the last quarter of the twentieth century and characterizes its implementation at the sub-national context. The topics are distributed only for practical purposes in areas of financing, management, participation and citizen coexistence, regulation and curriculum. Finally, at the end of the article, it provides some considerations to the municipal education policy, its potential ownership and progression in local government.
Local education policy; Public education policies; Education municipalization; Challenges of educational policy in the territory