Qualidade do gasto público em educação nos municípios do Mato Grosso do Sul (2015)

Abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the quality of public expenditure carried out by the provision of municipal public primary and final public education networks in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in 2015. The method used compares the expenditure incurred in primary education with the return Obtained in the form of learning and cognitive development. Public expenditure on education is the ratio of expenditure on the Education function to the number of enrollments in the public primary school system. Where the quality of teaching is measured by the weighting of the results obtained by the students in the evaluations of the System of Evaluation of Basic Education - SAEB. Both public expenditure and student performance are relativized through the statistical treatment called Standardized Score by the Normal Accumulated Distribution Function Method and result in the indicators of expenditure and performance in education. The ratio between the performance and expenditure indicators and the expenditure quality indicator allows the classification of municipal networks according to the quality of expenditure incurred. The analysis of the results allows to verify smaller expenses resulting in better quality of the expense at municipal level, indicating that the quality in the expense can be cause of the good management of the resources and not necessarily to the amount of applied resources. The measurements made have limitations, since the purpose of the method is to compare the results based on scores produced as averages and deviations, but which can be used as transparency instruments of municipal policies in education, since they serve as an alternative Measurement of results of public resources applied to quality schooling actions.