Changes in the São Paulo state teaching career plans and the teacher's devaluation

Abstract

Brazilian legislation and literature associate the appreciation and attractiveness of teaching to the creation of career plans for public teachers in basic education. It is possible, however, to observe a significant change in the way teaching careers are conceived in official documents and those of international organizations. The guiding documents for the teaching career in São Paulo reflect these changes in an exemplary way. Therefore, this paper aims to discuss these changes, especially those related to the forms of movement in the teaching career, through the analysis of the guiding documents for teaching career, as the Statute of the São Paulo State Teaching Profession, approved by Complementary Law n. 444 from 1985, the Career, Wage and Salaries Plan for the members of the Teaching Profession, created by Complementary Law n. 836 from 1997, and the recent Complementary Law n. 1.374 from 2022, which created new Career and Remuneration Plans for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers, School Principals, and Educational Supervisors of the State Department of Education. The analysis carried out showed that, in the largest public school system in the country, the teaching career has been changed to get closer and closer to a managerialist perspective, of which the change approved in 2022 is an example, since it emphasizes performance and merit and disregards the time of teaching experience.