The financing system of Brazilian education as instrument for the deepening social inequality

Education and its financing, fundamental to the development of a people, presents itself as a complex theme whose difficulties are seemingly insurmountable in our country. The present article aims to analyze the current constitutional federative arrangement of cooperative funding of the fundamental right to education, its relevance to the country's development and recovery from the current fiscal crisis, as well as to what extent educational financing has impacted inequality. In this perspective, the constitutional conformation of education will be evaluated, the ADCTs that directly affect the theme and the information related to educational inequality. The data and analyzes, components of a larger research, were extracted from the Brazilian Basic Education Yearbook 2017, the Education at a Glance 2017 report and the Brazilian-OXFAN inequalities report. The information linked to education shows a contradiction between the spirit of the Constitution and the national reality, where Brazil occupies the uncomfortable setting of the tenth most unequal country in the world.