Migration to public education: an analysis of the right to education in Paraná in times of Covid-19

Abstract

The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic brought a huge social and economic crisis, resulting from the measures to control the spread of the virus. In Brazil, the right to education provided for in the Constitution was significantly impaired with the migration of students from the private to the public educational system. The objective of this study is to analyze school census data to evaluate such migration. In order to accomplish the objective, this paper resorts to a quantitative and qualitative analysis, with data obtained from the INEP survey in the state of Paraná from the years 2017 thru 2020, as well as bibliographic and documentary research on the subject. The importance of public education was first identified in the 1824 Constitution and perfected in the Magna Carta of 1988. The study identified a slight increase in applications for public education in the State of Parana in the year 2020, interrupting a downward trend recorded since 2017. It is recommended that the study is deepened to verify the school dropout resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.