Instrument for Monitoring the Conditions of Supply of Special Education Services from the Perspective of Inclusive Education as Support for Public Prosecutor's Office Action
special education; inclusive education; monitoring instrument; public policies.
The right of people with disabilities, pervasive developmental disorders and high abilities/giftedness, the target audience of Special Education, to attend regular school without any conditions and to receive, preferably there, Specialized Educational Assistance (AEE) was recognized by the Constitution of 1988 and consolidated with the National Policy on Special Education from the Perspective of Inclusive Education of 2008. Despite the increase in the number of enrollments of this public in regular schools since then, the quality and equity of education offered to this public are far from that recommended by legislation. The reversal of this situation of non-conformity, of a structural nature, challenges the Public Ministry, demanding systemic, multidisciplinary and collective action from its members. The collection of reliable information about the educational services provided to this public by the education system appears to be imperative for evaluating the conditions of supply and ensuring the resoluteness of this action, but it comes up against the scarcity of instruments that serve this purpose and the problem posed for its elaboration. Therefore, the objective of this research was to build an instrument that assists Prosecutors in evaluating the conditions of provision and diagnosis of existing problems in Specialized Educational Services and other specialized services offered to students in the target audience of Special Education. The empirical aspect was developed in four stages: description of an overview of the problems identified in Special Education in the national scenario and in the state of Rondônia; the understanding of what is meant by Special Education “from the perspective of Inclusive Education”; the development and validation of the proposed questionnaires. The instrument consists of 7 questionnaires: Questionnaire 1, consisting of 344 questions, aimed at the State Secretariat for Education and the Municipal Secretariats for Education; Questionnaire 2, consisting of 43 questions, aimed at the State Council for Education and the Municipal Councils for Education; Questionnaire 3, consisting of 16 questions, aimed at the State Secretariat for Social Assistance and Development and the Municipal Secretariats for Social Assistance; Questionnaire 4, comprising 13 questions, for the Municipal Departments of Public Works and Services; Questionnaire 5, comprising 15 questions, for the State Council for the Rights of People with Disabilities and the Municipal Councils for the Rights of People with Disabilities; Questionnaire 6, comprising 307 questions, for schools; and Questionnaire 7, comprising 332 questions, also for schools. With the application of the instrument, it is expected to obtain a reliable overview of the inclusive educational policies being implemented, the target students enrolled in the regular network and the concrete conditions of the specialized services offered. The qualified intervention of the Public Prosecutor's Office is imperative to fulfill its constitutional mission of ensuring an inclusive educational system, which guarantees people with disabilities, pervasive developmental disorders and high abilities/giftedness the same opportunities afforded to their colleagues: access, stay, participate, develop and learn in a regular school.