To ensure an educational opportunity for every child that passes through America's schoolhouse doors, it is imperative that non-heterosexual students' educational needs are not ignored in the educational milieu (Zirkel, 2006). In the last decade or so, the desire of non-heterosexual students to organize Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs on high school campuses have been met with angst by school leaders (Duncan & Rogers, 2008). Despite the passage of the Equal Access Act (EAA) in 1984, school leaders have often denied non-heterosexual students the right to establish GSA clubs on campus, consequently resulting in these students utilizing the judicial system as the venue to assert their rights under the law (Essex, 2005). As it is imperative that educational leaders understand the legal rights of all students under their care, and make informed decisions in order to avoid costly litigation, this research focused on analyzing the Equal Access Act of 1984, federal case law, legal commentary, and historical documents, in order to track the developments of non-heterosexual students' ability to utilize the EAA to establish GSA clubs in the public schools in the United States. The study employed a traditional legal research methodology as described by Alder (1993) and Russo (1993), relying on electronic data bases and traditional legal finding tools to carry out the research. From the resulting legislation, case law, scholarly commentary, and other relevant documents reviewed and analyzed, an accurate historical perspective on the EAA as it relates to the formation of GSA clubs was constructed. In addition, the significant themes that arose from the findings were synthesized in order to offer guidance to educational leaders and policymakers when facing requests from students to establish GSA clubs on school property. Recommendations for school leaders when considering such requests from students to form GSA clubs under the EAA are provided. / Ed. D.

Thesis advisor: C. Patrick Proctor / Dominant conceptualizations for family-school relations across U.S. educational research, policy, and practice continue to privilege the behaviors, experiences, and practices of white, upper- and middle-class families, while failing to address the race and class power-relations that permeate educational institutions and their neighborhoods. In the field of bilingual education, there is an emergent body of research that examines issues of language, race, and class within the experiences of families in two-way dual language bilingual education, where children from multiple racial, cultural, and economic groups are educated together with the goals of bilingualism and biliteracy. However, this scholarship has not related the experiences and relations in bilingual programs to the broader issue regarding the dominant and deficit discourse of family-school relations in the U.S. In response, this dissertation situates families’ experiences in a two-way dual language bilingual program within the broader ideological, political, and historical dimensions of U.S. family-school relations. A theoretical orientation informed by Critical Race Theory, Critical Poststructuralist Sociolinguistics, and Feminist Poststructuralist frameworks was used to highlight how racialized positionalities of families in schools reverberate beyond individuals’ identity construction, connecting to discourses about families at other societal scales. This study utilized participant observations, semi-structured interviews, and artifact generation. Data was analyzed using discursive and textual analytical approaches. Findings include (a) an investigation of how the legal and institutional contexts related to family-bilingual school relations contribute to the racialization of people and their languaging; (b) an analysis of how raciolinguistic ideologies are deployed to naturalize the designation of linguistic and ethnoracial labels upon families; and (c) a generation of portraits highlighting how families ruptured deficit positionings by reporting on systems of oppression, their dynamic language practices, and their expansive relations across groups of people, places, and temporal scales. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that despite individual efforts of stakeholders in bilingual programs to foster the wellbeing and development of families, the racist and classist foundations of schooling will ensure the reification of oppressive educational experiences for multiply minoritized families. At the same time, these families will continue to find ways to survive, resist their subjugation, and reimagine more liberatory worlds. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

The School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 provided seed monies to educational institutions, if they were willing to form collaborative partnerships with members of the business and employer communities. The goal was to build learning opportunities for students that would facilitate their seamless transition from the public school system into adult work-settings and/or places of post-secondary education, training, and skills acquisition. An historical case study of school reform was conducted, using qualitative research methods that included extensive field observations, participant interviews, document analysis, narrative inquiry strategies, phenomenological reflection and data reduction. The lived experiences of 23 students and 14 community partners were juxtaposed against the recollected memories of the teacher-researcher, and analyzed in the context of complex change theory (Ambrose, 1987). The point was to distill the essential themes that could shed light on the research question. Those factors that were deemed to be influential in the development, delivery, or efficacy of the learning opportunities that were created as curriculum interventions, in support of this one piece of federal legislation, are discussed analytically, so as to make recommendations for similar practical programs with a career-education or work-based learning focus.

Literature within the field of Comparative Education often cautions against the transfer of foreign policies from one context to another. Despite this warning, Ontario’s public education system is said to have been based on an eclectic mix of foreign examples: teacher training institutes replicating Prussian Seminaries, school financing and the role of the chief superintendent and board of education as in the states of Massachusetts and New York, and using the Irish curriculum. This study conceptualises the manner in which these foreign elements became part of the 1846 school law and the reaction of stakeholders in and outside of government. The period covered by this study, 1844 – 1876, corresponds to Egerton Ryerson’s time as Chief Superintendent of education in Ontario. Extensive archival research of incoming and outgoing correspondence from the department of education, district council meeting minutes, newspapers, and local superintendent, inspector and trustee reports revealed contrasting opinions. On the one hand, sources indicated favourable results: increased pupil attendance, number of facilities and money raised to fund schools. There is also evidence that many foreign educationalists not only requested resources from Ontario’s board but aspired to emulate features of the province’s reformed education system in their own nations. This study’s finding of a ‘reverse cross-national attraction’ is a new contribution to Canadian historical studies. However, many resented features of the school bill. Critics called the superintendent and board’s method of organisation ‘Prussian despotism’ in Canadian schools; others argued the injustice of property tax to fund free schools and the cost burden of importing Irish textbooks. An original conceptual framework has been produced to review the manner in which Ryerson defended the new bill and the internalisation of these foreign policies and practices. This framework may serve as an analytical device for those engaged in researching educational policy borrowing.

Thèse sur travaux, l’ensemble est constitué d’un tome de « fil rouge » de 119 pages et de quatre tomes de travaux, reproduisant successivement (A) des livres, livres collectifs, articles et contributions à un ouvrage collectif, (B) des rapports d’inspection générale dont l’auteur a été le pilote ou le copilote, (C) des articles de revues, (D) des conférences et communications et (E) des interviews publiées. La première partie s’explique sur les circonstances qui ont présidé au cours de la carrière d’un haut-fonctionnaire de l’administration de l’éducation nationale à la production régulière de travaux et sur la constitution progressive d’un corpus tirant sa première cohérence de ses objets. Elle répond aussi à la question des motivations, superficielles ou profondes de la demande de légitimation universitaire de ces travaux dans le cadre d’une thèse de doctorat, de même qu’elle s’interroge sur ce qui peut étayer cette légitimation, en termes de construction d’objet, de raisonnements et de résultats.La deuxième partie reprend des travaux antérieurs ce qui traite de la façon dont le système éducatif français est gouverné, à partir des deux sous-titres « Un ministère de l’ignorance ? » et « Le désordre des pouvoirs éducatifs » : il est montré en quoi la sacralisation de la notion de système éducatif, le discours factice sur l’évaluation, la fermeture hexagonale de l’essentiel du débat sur l’éducation, ainsi que le peu d’intérêt institutionnel vis-à-vis des connaissances sur l’école concourent à renforcer un Etat éducateur central aussi monopoliste qu’impuissant.La troisième partie est plus spécifiquement consacrée à un aspect souvent négligé du système éducatif, à savoir les politiques curriculaires : l’auteur montre non seulement que le concept même de curriculum n’est pas utilisé, mais aussi que le désordre qui caractérise depuis longtemps la « fabrique des contenus » d’enseignement en France fait paradoxalement système avec une indifférence aux apprentissages des élèves qui n’est qu’un aspect du caractère sélectif des traditions éducatives françaises. Il analyse enfin dans quelle mesure le « socle commun de compétences en fin de scolarité obligatoire » inaugure une première « politique curriculaire » dans le cadre de ce pays. / This thesis, consisting mainly in submitting a corpus of previous works, is made of one “guiding light” volume (119 pages) and four volumes that reproduce (A) books, collective books, articles and contributions to collective works, (B) official reports of “inspection générale” of which the author was main or associated pilot, (C) articles from reviews, (D) lectures and communications, and (E) published interviews.The first part explains from which circumstances a senior civil servant of the Department of Education regularly produced such works since 1985 and how these works step by step got their first consistency. It also tells from which motivations, be they superficial or deeper, the academic legitimization of these works is aimed for in the framework of a PhD. It also questions the grounds of this academic legitimacy, from the ways the objects were built, the kinds of reasoning that are used and the produced results themselves. The second part starts from what in the previous works dealt with the way the French Educational system is ruled, with two subtitles “A Department of ignorance?” and “Disorder in Educational authorities” : it is shown to what extent the notion of “educational system”, made sacred as it is, together with fallacious political positions about evaluation, with the frequent ignorance of international issues in most educational decisions, and with a weak official interest towards knowledge about education, reinforces the central State, as far as Education is concerned, as an actor paradoxically monopolistic, ignorant and powerless.The third part is more specifically dedicated to one aspect of the educational system that is often ignored and taboo, namely curricular policies: the author does not only show that the concept of curriculum itself is not used, but that the disorder that has for long characterized the way the curricula are produced in France, makes up a system together with a disinterest towards what students actually learn, this disinterest being itself part of the selection-oriented French educational tradition. Eventually, it analyses to which extent the introduction of the “common core of competencies to be reached at the end of compulsory education” (“socle commun”) opens the way for the first curricular policy in this country.

[pt] O estudo tem como objetivo analisar o processo de recontextualização do discurso pedagógico oficial/DPO de uma política educacional frente às influências político-partidária e disputas locais, bem como das diretrizes globais e nacionais. O foco da análise foram os textos, especialmente da política de ciclos, produzidos ao longo de três gestões (1999-2002/PDT); (2005-2008/PT); (2009-2012/PDT) na rede municipal de educação de Niterói, localizada no estado do Rio de Janeiro/RJ. Na pesquisa, buscou-se entender como o discurso pedagógico oficial veiculado por meio da política de ciclos tem sido recontextualizado ao longo de sua trajetória (1999-2012) nos textos produzidos na Fundação Municipal de Educação de Niterói/RJ (FME). A análise fundamentou-se na teoria do dispositivo pedagógico de Basil Bernstein (1996). Desse aporte, apropriou-se em especial do conceito de recontextualização do discurso para se alcançar a compreensão do processo de modificação dos significados atribuídos à política de ciclos no contexto analisado. Bernstein (2003) contribuiu ainda com a definição dos modelos pedagógicos de competência e desempenho, viabilizando a identificação das diferentes regras da prática pedagógica que permitiu ao estudo estabelecer relações da organização da escolaridade em ciclos e em séries, respectivamente. Além disso, utilizou-se a abordagem do ciclo de políticas de Stephen Ball (1994), que descarta uma análise linear e binária das políticas, tratando-as em seus contextos relacionais – influência, produção do texto, prática. Como metodologia empregou-se as contribuições da pesquisa qualitativa, tendo como instrumento principal a análise documental. Para tanto, teve como base os seguintes documentos: (a) proposta Construindo a escola do nosso Tempo (1999); (b) proposta Escola de Cidadania (2008) e (c) proposta Escola de Cidadania e Diversidade Cultural (2010). Foram também realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com sujeitos envolvidos na gestão das políticas visando à complementação da análise. Nas conclusões do estudo, revelam-se diferentes finalidades sociais conjugadas no discurso pedagógico da política de ciclos: (a) as de cunho eficienticista associadas ao desenvolvimento da economia e participação competente dos educandos no mundo global; (b) as de emancipação para igualdade na participação política e (c) as de equidade e eficácia para inclusão das identidades plurais. Em termos gerais, com o estudo conclui-se que a trajetória de 14 anos da política de ciclos na rede municipal de Educação de Niterói/RJ não garantiu um discurso homogêneo no cenário educacional em que é desenvolvida, não se comprometendo efetivamente com uma educação democrática. Isso, porque, ao interagir com um conjunto de discursos e textos ativos no campo educacional, a política participou de disputas pela definição e distribuição de significados, realizações e organizações da prática pedagógica. / [en] The study aims to analyze the recontextualization process of official pedagogical discourse/DPO of an educational policy front to political party and local disputes influences as well as global and national guidelines. The focus of the analysis were the texts, especially the cycle policy, produced over three managements [i.e. (1999-2002/PDT); (2005-2008/PT); (2009-2012/PDT)] in the municipal education network of Niterói, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro/RJ. In the research, sought to understand how the pedagogical discourse conveyed through policy cycles has been recontextualizated throughout its history (1999-2012) in the texts produced in the Municipal Education Foundation of Niterói/RJ (FME). The analysis was based on Basil Bernstein (1996) theory of pedagogic device. From this theory, appropriated in particular of the concept of recontextualization of discourse to achieve an understanding of the process of modification of the meanings attributed to the policy cycles in the context analyzed. Bernstein (2003) also contributed to the definition of the pedagogical models of competence and performance, enabling the identification of the various rules of pedagogical practice that allowed the study to establish relationships of the organization of schooling in cycles and series, respectively. Moreover, it was used the policy cycle approach by Stephen Ball (1994), that drops a binary linear analysis of policies, treating them in their relational contexts - influence, text production, practice. As methodology was adopted the contributions of qualitative research, having as main instrument the documentary analysis. For this, it was based on the following documents: (a) the proposal Building the School of our time (1999); (b) the proposal Citizenship School (2008) and (c) the proposal School of Citizenship and Cultural diversity (2010). Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with the subjects involved in the management of policies aiming at the completion of the analysis. In the conclusions of the study, it was observed different social purposes are combined in the pedagogical discourse of political cycles: (a) the associated efficient oriented to the development of the economy and competent participation in the global world; (b) the emancipation for equality in political participation and (c) the equity and effectiveness for inclusion of plural identities. In general terms, the study concluded that the trajectory of 14 years of policy cycles in the municipal education network of Niterói/RJ not secured a homogeneous discourse in the educational scenario in which it is developed, not committing effectively with a democratic education. That is because, when interacting with a set of discourses and active texts in the educational field, the policy took part in disputes by definition and distribution of meanings, achievements and pedagogical practice organizations.

O Centro Brasileiro e os Centros Regionais de Pesquisas Educacionais foram instituições criadas no interior da estrutura do Ministério da Educação e Cultura, em 1955. A finalidade principal dos Centros era realizar pesquisas cujos resultados pudessem ser utilizados na elaboração de uma nova política educacional capaz de tornar a educação escolarizada, efetivamente, um dos fatores favoráveis ao desenvolvimento econômico e social que se processava, em diferentes ritmos, nas diversas regiões do país àquela época. A partir da identificação dos projetos de pesquisa que foram propostos por todos os Centros, durante todos os anos em que neles foram desenvolvidas atividades de pesquisa, foi possível constatar a existência de dois períodos distintos em sua produção: um, transcorrido do início do funcionamento dos Centros até, aproximadamente, 1961; e, outro, que começou em 1962 e se estendeu até o princípio da década de 1970. Tendo em vista o objetivo de compreender as mudanças apresentadas pelos projetos de pesquisas dos Centros nos dois períodos identificados, foram estabelecidas relações entre essas mudanças e os diversos propósitos que orientaram a realização daqueles projetos, assim como com as políticas educacionais promovidas pelo governo federal entre as décadas de 1950 e 1970. Os resultados alcançados indicam que os Centros passaram da condição de instituições que se propunham a gerar subsídios científicos à tomada de decisões políticas relativas à educação, através da realização de pesquisas que enfatizavam a interpretação das relações existentes entre a educação escolarizada e as mudanças em curso na sociedade brasileira, para a condição de instituições que subsidiavam a implementação de políticas previamente elaboradas por outras instâncias de poder, promovendo a realização de pesquisas cuja ênfase se circunscrevia à análise de aspectos internos ao funcionamento da escola. / The Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Educacionais (Brazilian Center of Educational Research) and the Centros Regionais de Pesquisas Educacionais (Regional Centers of Educational Research) were institutions created inside the structure of the Ministério da Educação e Cultura (Ministry of Education and Culture) in 1955. The Centers aimed at realizing researches whose results could be used in the elaboration of a new educational policy capable of effectively rendering school education one of the favorable factors to the economic and social development in course, in different rhythms, in the different regions of the country at the time. Based on a survey of the research projects which were proposed by all the Centers, during all the years in which there was research activity within them, it was possible to identify the existence of two distinct periods in their research production: one from the creation of the Centers until, approximately, 1961; and another starting in 1962 and stretching until the early 1970s. This works\' objective is to understand the changes shown by the Centers\' research projects through the two identified periods by establishing relations between these changes and the different purposes that oriented the realization of these projects, as well as with the educational policies promoted by the federal government from the 1950s to the 1970s. The results reached indicate that the Centers, beginning as institutions that proposed to generate scientific assistance to the making of educational policy decisions, passed to the condition of institutions that gave support to the implementation of policies previously elaborated by other instances of power. Correspondingly, the content of the research projects changed from the realization of research that emphasized the interpretation of the existing relation between school education and the changes in course in the Brazilian society to promoting the realization of research that was circumscribed to the analysis of internal aspects of the school activity.

A democracia participativa vem ganhando ênfase no âmbito das administrações públicas. A experiência de maior destaque, até mesmo internacional, é a de Orçamento Participativo, no qual a população delibera sobre as prioridades a serem inseridas no orçamento público. Estudos têm destacado que essas práticas possibilitam aos seus participantes realizarem um exercício da cidadania ativa, desenvolvendo cada vez mais os espaços de participação popular característicos de sociedades democráticas - Freire, Benevides, Gohn, Pontual. Admite-se, também, que essas experiências de Orçamento Participativo vêm contribuindo para o desenvolvimento e integração de outras práticas participativas. Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo estudar o instrumento de gestão democrática denominado \"Orçamento Participativo\", implementado pela Administração Municipal da Prefeitura de Araraquara/SP, trabalhando com a hipótese de que esse mecanismo de participação popular contribui para a educação para a cidadania da parcela de munícipes que participam desse processo, incentivando que estes se insiram em outros espaços de participação e de controle social. O que se pode perceber é que essa participação colabora, de fato, para a formação cidadã, como uma espécie de \"escola de cidadania\", pois a pesquisa mostrou os diferentes aprendizados dos seus participantes, bem como o envolvimento dos mesmos em diversos Conselhos de Políticas Públicas, o que acabou favorecendo a integração entre eles. Para esse desenvolvimento, a pesquisa fez uso da metodologia qualitativa, utilizando, dentre outros instrumentos, a entrevista semi-estruturada, a análise de documentos e a observação participante nas reuniões do OP. Esse estudo possibilita afirmar que essas experiências são importantes para a construção de uma \"cidade educadora\", na qual aconteçam políticas públicas que despertem para valores como a igualdade e a solidariedade e estimulem o exercício da cidadania, despertando cada vez mais interesse em participar e se conceber como cidadão. / Participatory democracy is being emphasized in the sphere of public administration. The most prominent experience, even international, is the Participative Budget, in which people deliberate about the priorities to be inserted in the public budget. Many studies have emphasized that these practices allow their participants to do an active citizenship exercise, developing more and more the spaces of popular participation that are peculiar in democratic societies - Freire, Benevides, Gohn, Pontual. We also admit that these experiences with Participative Budget are contributing to the development and integration in other participative practices. The present research aimed to study the instrument of democratic management called \"Participative Budget\", that was implemented by the Municipal Administration of Araraquara City Hall in São Paulo State, working with the hypothesis that this mechanism of popular participation contributes to the education to the citizenship of the participants in this process, encouraging them to be involved in other spaces of participation and social control. We could notice that this participation contributes, in fact, to the formation of citizens, with a kind of \"school of citizenship\", as the research showed different learning by their participants, as well their involvement in many Public Policy Councils, helping to integrate them. To this development, the research used qualitative methodology, making use of many different instruments as semistructured interview, analysis of documents and participative observation in the \"Participative Budget\" meetings. This study enabled us to say that these experiences are important to build an \"educator city\", in which public policy can happen to awake for values as equality and solidarity and to stimulate the practice of citizenship, in order to interest more and more the participation and the act of being citizen.

Esta pesquisa é um estudo de caso sobre o Conselho de Acompanhamento e Controle Social (CACS) do Fundo de Manutenção e de Desenvolvimento do Ensino Fundamental e de Valorização do Magistério (Fundef) do Município de São Paulo, cuja perspectiva de análise foi identificar as ações de seus membros na realização das atividades do próprio Conselho e, desta forma, compreender quais foram as condições reais que tiveram para realizar o acompanhamento e o controle social das contas do Fundef no Município de São Paulo. Além disso, procurou analisar a dinâmica adotada por este Conselho para realizar suas funções de acordo com a legislação, por se tratar de um Conselho recente na história da Educação no Brasil. O estudo de caso foi realizado com material produzido, no período de 1998 a 2006, na forma de Atas das Reuniões e dos Relatórios Anuais. Entrevistas com membros do CACS serviram de complementação à análise efetuada na pesquisa. Como resultado do estudo, identificou-se que as quatro primeiras gestões não conseguiram analisar as respectivas contas do Fundef do município de São Paulo nos períodos correspondentes aos mandatos dos Conselheiros e somente a 5ª gestão conseguiu elaborar os Relatórios do seu período de mandato. Concluiu-se, ainda, que a atuação dos Conselheiros foi dificultada devido à falta de dados para a análise das contas, à morosidade da administração pública municipal em designar novos conselheiros, às dificuldades para a formação dos Conselheiros ao longo dos mandatos e às constantes substituições de membros, especialmente do segmento de pais. Apesar de ter efetivamente pouca interferência nas ações dos governos municipais, o CACS configura-se como um espaço importante para o debate acerca da Gestão Democrática do Financiamento da Educação. / The aim of this dissertation, which is a case study about the Council for the Accompaniment and Social Control (CACS) of the Fund for Development of Fundamental Education and Valorization of Teachers (FUNDEF) of the Municipality of São Paulo, is to investigate the actions of the Council Members while carrying out the activities of the Council and thus comprehend what the real conditions they had to carry out the accompaniment and the social control of FUNDEF\'s bills in the Municipality of São Paulo were. In addition to that, we also investigated the dynamics adopted by this Council to carry out its duties according to the Brazilian legislation, for being a recent-created Council in the Education history in Brazil. The case study was carried out using the Meeting Minutes and the Annual Reports written between the years of 1998 and 2006. Interviews with CACS members complemented this investigation. As a result of the study, it was possible to observe that during the first four managements they were not able to analyze FUNDEF\'s bills of the Municipality of São Paulo, only during the fifth management the Council Members were able to draw up a report of their management period. It was also observed that what hindered the Council Members\' performance was the lack of data to analyze the bills, the moroseness of the municipal public administration to name new Council Members, the troubles the Council Members have learning the Brazilian legislation and doing accounts during their managements, and the constant substitution of members, specially the segment of parents,. In spite of effectively having low interference in the actions of the Municipality Government, the Council (CACS) is an important place to discuss about the Democratic Management of the Education Financing.

Esta pesquisa analisa o Programa de Apoio Pedagógico implementado na Rede Municipal de Ensino de Ribeirão Preto, a partir da percepção dos profissionais. A pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa, foi realizada entre agosto de 2011 e junho de 2013, e utilizou-se de análise documental; entrevistas com gestores municipais; aplicação de questionários a Professores de Apoio Pedagógico (PAPs) atuantes no ano letivo de 2012; e entrevistas com PAPs e Professores Titulares que atuaram com Professores de Apoio. A inserção de um segundo professor em sala de aula foi verificada em quantidade significativa em diferentes Redes de ensino em todo o país. Para compreensão das diferentes experiências de introdução do segundo professor em sala de aula, foram identificadas diferentes realidades em que a implantação do Professor de Apoio tem sido efetivada: o Professor de Apoio em Portugal, dentro de uma perspectiva de educação inclusiva, o collaborative teaching, nos Estados Unidos, a docência compartilhada, em Porto Alegre (RS), e o Auxiliar de Ensino nas Redes Municipal e Estadual de Ensino de São Paulo. A proposta do segundo professor parece ter se difundido no Brasil a partir da década de 1990, quando é iniciada uma profunda reforma no Estado Brasileiro, com importantes implicações para as políticas educacionais. Em relação ao Programa objeto de análise, foi constatada ausência de documentos oficiais que relatassem seu histórico e suas orientações teórico-metodológicas. A partir dos dados dos questionários e das entrevistas com os Professores, buscou-se apresentar o Programa de Apoio Pedagógico segundo a percepção dos profissionais. Os dados obtidos permitiram verificar a existência no Programa de entraves na efetivação de uma educação na perspectiva de qualidade social. A fragilidade da política foi identificada na indefinição clara de objetivos, a ausência de orientações e de formação específica para a função de Professor de Apoio Pedagógico, a ausência ou insuficiência de materiais destinados ao Programa, e a ausência de instrumentos formais para sua avaliação. Observou-se que a prática do Professor de Apoio Pedagógico ainda não foi consolidada, e que as dificuldades de implantação do segundo professor reiteram os obstáculos presentes no primeiro programa de atuação de voluntários que o antecede. / This research analyzes the Educational Support Program implemented in Municipal Schools of Ribeirão Preto, from the professionals perception. The research was qualitative, was conducted between August 2011 and June 2013, and used document analysis, interviews with municipal managers; questionnaires with Educational Support Teachers (PAPs) who worked in the academic year 2012, and interviews with PAPs and Teachers who worked with Support Teachers. The insertion of a second teacher in the classroom was found in significant amounts in different school systems throughout the country. To understand the different experiences of introducing the second teacher in the classroom, it was identified different realities in which the implementation of Support Teacher has been effected: Support Teacher in Portugal, within a perspective of inclusive education, the collaborative teaching in the United States, shared teaching, in Porto Alegre (RS), and Teaching Assistant in the São Paulo´s Municipal and State Education Systems. The proposal of second teacher seems to have been widespread in Brazil from the 1990s, when it began a profound reform in the Brazilian State, with important implications for educational policy. Regarding the analyzed program was observed absence of official documents to report on its history and its theoretical and methodological orientation, necessitating the use of oral sources through interviews with management team´s representatives of the researched city´s Municipal Department of Education. From the data of questionnaires and interviews with teachers sought to present the Educational Support Program by professionals perception. The obtained data showed the existence of barriers in the Program to actualize an education from the perspective of social quality. The fragility of the politics were identified in undefined clear goals, the absence of guidelines and specific training for the role of Educational Support Teachers, the lack or the failure of materials for the Program, the absence of formal instruments for its evaluation. It was observed that Pedagogical Support Teacher´s practice has not yet been consolidated, and the difficulties of implementing the second teacher reiterate the obstacles in the first program of volunteers work that precedes it.