Education funding x public transparency: reflections on budget execution

Abstract

The article discusses the transparency of the Summary Budget Execution Report, aiming to highlight how the educational resources are being disposed between the 2007 to 2020 years.  In this way, the results of the research from the Executive Power Transparency of the municipalities that are part of Curitiba Metropolitan First Layer, trying to observe how the “Appendix 8 – Statement of Income and Expenses with Teaching Maintenance and Development” is available in these portals and what type of information’s are shown. The research is based on the construct of public transparency, which proposes the combination data of publicity and intelligibility of the available information. Thus, the methodology adopted was based on the following categories: access conditions, publicity conditions and intelligibility conditions of this Statement, and some troubles related the access, publicity, and intelligibility were found, these troubles undertake the social control.