The Public-Private Partnership between the Secretariat of Education and the National Service for Commercial Learning (SENAC) within the Implementation of the Full-Time High School Program (EMTI) in the Federal District (2017–2025).
Basic Education, High School, Privatization, Full-Time Education, High School Reform
The qualification project “The Public-Private Partnership between the Secretariat of Education and the National Service for Commercial Learning (SENAC) within the Implementation of the Full-Time High School Program (EMTI) in the Federal District (2017–2025)” aims to analyze the role of the business sector in the public education policy of the Federal District. The research is based on the premise that the High School Reform (Law 13,415/2017, revised by Law 14,945/2024) consolidated the inclusion of private actors in the formulation and implementation of educational policies, shaping a process of privatization and corporate hegemony over public schools. The study seeks to understand how the partnership between the Secretariat of Education of the Federal District and SENAC, an entity of the “Sistema S,” was established, and how this relationship reflects the advance of a corporate-financial model of management and training in full-time secondary education. Grounded in historical-dialectical materialism and Gramscian categories such as State, hegemony, and private apparatuses of hegemony, the research articulates the concepts of education, labor, management, and privatization as analytical tools for interpreting public policy. The methodology includes document analysis of laws, decrees, agreements, institutional reports, and journalistic materials, taking into account the historical and political determinants of the post-2016 context. The study aims to contribute to the debate on the relationship between education and labor in contemporary society and to the critique of public-private partnerships in basic education, highlighting their ideological and structural implications in shaping Brazilian educational policy