THE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN THE EDUCATIONAL POLICY OF THE ALCKMIN GOVERNMENTS

The New Public Management (NGP) entered the Brazilian administration in 1995, with the State Reform of the presidential administration of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-1998). Several states assumed its principles, with emphasis on Sao Paulo, which, since 1995, started a wide movement of reforms, oriented towards a managerial public administration, with a strong emphasis on the educational sector. This article focuses on the governments of Geraldo Alckmin (2003-2006; 2007-2010; 2011-2014) and, based on bibliographic analysis, seeks to make some general notes about NGP in its educational management. It was observed the continued use of NGP strategies in educational management in Sao Paulo, mainly through: actions to focus on social spending, rationalize tasks and lower costs; centralization and strengthening of decision-making and control nuclei for implemented policies, in the face of decentralization of responsibility for the results achieved; the concern with performance and productivity in public administration; the use of private initiative as a supposed superior reference for public organization and management. It is noted that Alckmin's management in education, in contrast to acting to break with the management models employed by previous managements, acted to intensify the use of NGP principles in the sector.