Comparando os Recursos Financeiros do PDDE com as chamadas ‘Contribuições Espontâneas’ arrecadadas pelas Escolas Públicas
The paper brings research data on how much the Money Direct to School Program (Programa Dinheiro Direto na Escola, PDDE), of federal origin, represents for the financial management of public schools in Brazil, compared to the fund raising made by the schools themselves.It is based on a digital survey, answered by 1,744 people, representatives of school units in the country.The answers made it possible to create a representative database of all federative units in Brazil, drawing a panorama of the impressions of people who deal with school financial management.It is pointed out that the PDDE is the only source of financial resources in 47.7% of cases, discussing the indispensability of this program for schools throughout Brazil, in addition to detecting low representation of own resources (17.4%) -with the exception of schools in the South region.Finally, it discusses the so-called "spontaneous contributions", especially in the state of Santa Catarina.