The aliança group's policy network in Brazil and the incorporation of the "technical selection" model of the private sector in brazilian educational management

Abstract

This text aims to analyze the performance and expansion of the group Alliance for Impact Leaders in the Public Sector and the Third Sector in Brazil, from the intertwining of institutional actors that configure its network of policies and the processes of technical pre-selection for educational managers of the State Secretariats of Education of several Brazilian states. For this, the institutions/foundations that started the Aliança group are presented, as well as its reconfiguration when it was later renamed as Vamos. We also present the partnerships around the group and data on the pre-selections that are carried out. The study relies on the analysis of documents, materials and policy networks and uses the analytical theoretical support of Evangelista and Shiroma (2019, 2014), Harvey (2011), Robertson; Verger (2012), Clarke and Newman (2012), Ball (2020), among others. After mapping the network and its respective analysis, it is concluded that the gradual and strategic composition of the partnerships around the Aliança operates reinforcing the expansion of the network itself, in order to promote the logic of the private sector in public spaces. This logic drives a managerialist model of technical pre-selection in the states that, initially, is led by the Aliança and, later, begins to be carried out by the state governments themselves, as these are "trained" by the group and incorporate its management logic.