This paper presents an analysis of the educational situation in the States of North region, Maranhão and Mato Grosso, which constitute what is called Amazônia Legal. The period of the analysis contains the years between 1996 and 1998, focusing in the elementary and high school education, due...

The Constitutional Funds were established by art. 159, item I, paragraph c of the Federal Constitution of 1988 with the objective of contributing to the "reduction of inequalities" existing between the peripheral regions of the North, Northeast and Center-West vis-à-vis the central regions of...