Public policies in education

Abstract

today, in our country, people talk a lot about public policies. We are constantly hearing about public policies in health, employment, education. Public policies for youth, children, the elderly, women, Afro-descendant communities, indigenous communities; public policies to address forced displacement and re-insertion into civilian life of the armed insurgents; policies for the protection of the environment; public policy for the management and preservation of non-renewable natural resources. Public policies are demanded from all fronts of the complex social fabric. However, what is legislated in this respect does not present substantial differences, not even in form, with the traditional official policies that are managed by the state and that respond to partisan programs or to the particular interests of the large national and international economic and financial groups. . In this sense, the expression public policy is usurped by those who control the state from their position as rulers not only to justify the claim of universalization or popularization of plans and programs, with category of laws, which lack the necessary and sufficient financial backing to guarantee a coverage on par with this pretension, but to pretend the democratic power of the consultation and participation implicit in the connotation of the public.