Projeto Sala de Gestão e Governança da Educação Básica do Brasil: uma análise da ferramenta Sicgesp na gestão das secretarias de educação municipais

Abstract

Managing is not simple. The manager needs to surround himself with competent people who help him in day-to-day activities. Even with the body of work filled with good professionals, decision-making needs the help of data to support the choices and is an exclusive function of the manager. Therefore, the data must have sufficient qualities to allow the user to trust the decisions he/she has taken/will take. It is in this context that this work is inserted, when approaching the project Sala de Gestão e Governança da Educação Báásica do Brasil, focusing on the analysis of its tool called SICGESP. The objective of the research was to understand whether the reports produced by the tool can help education managers, in the different municipalities of Brazil, to make the best decisions, making the investments of resources destined for the area of education more efficient. For this purpose, we chose three municipalities, naming them municipalities A, B and C. They were chosen according to the size of the population range. Municipality A is in the range of 1,000 to 10,000 inhabitants, B is between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants and C is above 100,000 inhabitants. The clipping can demonstrate whether the project is useful regardless of the size of the population of the municipality. We made tables and graphs of their Management and Compared Service Level Reports (general measure of evaluation by SICGESP). In municipalities B and C, for a better visualization of the data, we chose the 5 schools with the highest average number of students attending to make comparisons with the IDEB score (Basic Education Development Index) in order to verify the efficiency of schools in this indicator. In the theoretical framework, which supports the analysis, we brought the concepts of public governance, costs and cost accounting, always from the perspective of the public sector. Understanding these themes helps us to better discern the proposal and objective of the project under analysis. Finally, with all the objectives achieved, we found it difficult to carry out an analysis using only quantitative indicators. The experiences of those who work in the Secretariats are necessary and, as SICGESP indicates the abnormal behavior of costs (if any), the management gains a tool that will show the behavior of its costs, allowing a more careful analysis by the management. This analysis will encourage decision-making by the manager, whether from the Education Department or the Executive.