Conselhos de alimentação escolar e o controle social na gestão do PNAE: uma análise dos PMEs do TD Vale do Rio Guaribas

Abstract

School feeding is formed by the set of meals offered by the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) and is a food practice of the greatest relevance in Brazilian public schools, of basic education. However, the materialization of this educational policy is accompanied by the need for municipalities to constitute their School Feeding Council (CAE), directly responsible for monitoring, controlling and monitoring actions related to school meals. Therefore, the CAE plays the role of social control of this important public educational policy. In this sense, this research had as general objective to analyze the treatment given by the municipalities of the TD Vale Rio Guaribas in their Municipal Education Plans (PME) to the social control of the PNAE, through the School Feeding Council. To this end, a bibliographic research was carried out for a greater depth on the subject. Thus, the research has authors relevant to the debate, such as: Araújo (2017), Libanêo (2018), Carvalho (2021), Raimann (2023), Silva (2024), among others. For the data collection, a documentary research was carried out based on the Municipal Education Plans (PME) of the 23 municipalities of the aforementioned TD, having as a cut the analysis of Goal 19 of the National Education Plan (PNE) in the interface with the same Goal in the PMEs of the 23 municipalities of the TD Vale do Rio Guaribas, which, in some cases, does not follow the same numbering as the PNE. The findings of the survey show that the municipalities gave deadlines for the implementation of their goal and strategies ranging from 1 (one) to 4 (four) years, with a predominance of the period of 2 (two) years that is the PNE guides. It was also found that most municipalities use language so as not to commit themselves directly, opting for verbs and tenses that do not immediately imply them, playing with words which can lead to confusion in society. The findings of the research also show that the attributions of the CAEs' counselors, as well as the concrete conditions for them to perform their roles, in some municipalities it was not sufficiently clear and in others, this was not even mentioned. Finally, the study shows the long way we have to go to guarantee the principle of democratic management, where social control plays an important role.