O Ensino Secundário em Minas Gerais no Período Republicano: promessas de igualdade, heranças de exclusão

Abstract

The present work proposes an analysis about the organization of secondary education, during the republican period, in a time frame located in the 20th century, specifically in the state of Minas Gerais. The methodology used was based on the instruments of New Political History and documentary research. To this end, the sources listed were the legal texts of the period studied, mainly Laws, Reports and Speeches of the governors to the Legislative Power. In addition, they made up the analytical corpus of research, statistics and official censuses about school establishments and enrollments. The text discusses secondary education through its expansion and public and private investments, noting that for this segment, the private institutions and the number of students served were highlighted numerically. By way of final considerations, it was found that public investments were below demand, which enabled a large expansion of the private sector and that, from the late decades of the twentieth century, systematic public investment in this segment of education.