PNAIC in Rio de Janeiro: three institutional arrangements of implementation

ABSTRACT The article works with the literature on public policies in the study of the implementation of the National Pact for Literacy at the Right Age (PNAIC, in Portuguese) in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The analysis highlights the collaboration between the State Secretariat of Education and the municipalities of Rio de Janeiro and the partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the National Union of Municipal Education Leaders (UNDIME), which shared the coordination of the Pact throughout its term in the state. Among the main findings, it is possible to point the creation of specific departments, in the municipal secretariats, to take care of literacy policies, the inclusion of professors and students from normal schools and from the Pedagogy degree program at UFRJ in training initiatives and a greater motivation of professors for training in higher, graduate, and postgraduate courses.