Racismo e financiamento da educação básica: um estudo sobre o orçamento da educação no município de Osasco/SP (2021-2024)

Abstract

In Brazil, schooling as we know it today has its origins in the colonial period. Since the 1934 Constitution, education funding has become the responsibility of the state, using public resources. In different historical contexts, Black people have been either enslaved or excluded from the nation's development project, including education. We believe that, in the latter case, education funding plays an important role in the process involving racial issues and the fight against racism. This master's dissertation aims to identify whether the municipal education budget of Osasco, São Paulo, pays due attention to racial issues. To this end, as methodological procedures, we conducted bibliographical and documentary research and analyzed the municipality's education budgets between 2021 and 2024. We identified a lack of public policies, programs, and financial resources addressing racial issues in education. And we denounce institutional racism, as a reverberation of structural racism amalgamated with the capitalist mode of production