ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to focus on the 2015 occupation movements of Sao Paulo's secondary schools and what they reveal in terms of the political, economic, social and cultural conditions that reproduce our society as a whole. It is important to first situate these practices within the transnational movements that helped to articulate the students of Sao Paulo and, in turn, students in secondary schools and universities throughout the country. By the end of 2015, more than two hundred secondary schools in Sao Paulo were being occupied by student movements against the 'reorganization' plan of the public-school system proposed by the state government to improve educational performance in line with the growing neoliberalization of learning and teaching worldwide. The students' movements were articulated in terms of a sense of luto, a kind of mourning in the face of the threats expressed by the reorganization plan and the projected closing of ninety-three schools in the region.
