Educação e Pesquisa Print version ISSN 1517-9702 ARELARO, Lisete
Regina Gomes; JACOMINI, Márcia Aparecida and KLEIN, Sylvie
Bonifácio. Nine-year fundamental education and the right to
education. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2011, vol.37, n.1, pp. 35-51.
ISSN 1517-9702.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1517-97022011000100003. This article
investigates the consequences of the Federal Laws No. 11114/05,
which instituted the start of the period of mandatory education
at the age of six, and No. 11274/06, which increased the
duration of fundamental education to nine years, keeping its
start at the age of six. The analyses presented here are based
on documents and empirical data of the study Avaliando políticas
educacionais: um estudo sobre a implantação do ensino
fundamental de nove anos no Estado de São Paulo [Evaluating
educational policies: a study of the implementation of nine-year
fundamental education in the State of São Paulo]. Under a
qualitative approach, that study was conducted in municipal and
state public school