A Educação especial no estado de Mato Grosso do Sul: uma análise para o ano de 2015

Abstract

The Special Needs Education in Mato Grosso do Sul state is a not well explored area by economic researchers. This paper was developed through researches in the state government web sites, exploring their publications on budgets and plans, and spending specifications related to special needs education. Furthermore, we analyzed microdata provided by the 2015 school census from INEP. We identified the plans and government’s projects. One of these projects is the creation of a public tender procedure to fill the vacancies of teachers who will work in institutions specialized in special needs education. FUNDEB is one of the major funding programs. We found 28,909 students with special educational needs. Most of these students have intellectual disabilities, 80 percent of all students with disabilities. About 67 percent of these students are not registered in the Educational Service Specialist. We observed 2,347 teachers who work in classes exclusively for students with disabilities. About 89 percent of these teachers have higher education, and 48 percent have some specialization in the area of special needs education. Most schools are municipals schools, and about 6,593 schools have students with some sort of disability.