ABSTRACT
After three decades of passing democratic management in public schools in the 1988 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, its implementation is still a challenge. Amid conservative reaction and antidemocratic actions, on one hand, and innovative resistance, on the other, students of basic education in the state of São Paulo carried out an important struggle against the intent of reorganising the state school system, proposed by the government in 2015. This chapter aims to discuss the democratic management in Brazilian public schools in the context of educational reforms, especially in the state of São Paulo. To do so, we analyse research data from a specific public school in the state, with the purpose of setting democratic management processes and the management policy of schools in the mentioned state based on a documentary study. The local interest gains a broader meaning because of the contrast this example provides in the context of neoliberal education reforms, which impose managerial models onto school administration, as well as a resistance movement to educational policies intended to reduce pedagogical processes of citizenship formation to the brand management of human capital.
