This present paper analyzes the public policy of full - time schools (FTS) in the city of
Palmas - TO, currently expanding widely in Brazil, present in the agendas of most public
managers. This public policy is designed to correct deep social and intellectual
inequalities and, in particular, to ensure more dignity for citizens through access to the
various extracurricular activities that are essential to integral formation. The FTS was
implemented in the Palmas - TO municipal school system from 2007. This new
educational reality brought innovations and adherents, especially among students and
families benefited by the extended time proposal. However, the school community,
especially teachers and other actors directly involved in working with students, in the
FTS, had their work and life routines impacted, without being properly prepared to meet
the necessary changes. From this perspective, the study analyzes the main advances and
challenges present in the county policy of full-time schools, aiming to show ways to
elaborate tools that can boost the development of the modality and improvement of the
educational practice towards integral education. Adopted the qualitative approach and
procedures of documentary and field research, applying the Focus Group (FG) technique.
As main results, , the transformations that occurred in both schools and the challenges
related to the understanding of the concept of full time school and full education were
explained. Challenges to be overcome were also identified regarding the adequacy of the
infrastructure and problems related to the increase in working hours. Also was identified
the need for continuous training of the professionals that work in full time school, and
especially, the need for a suitable curriculum for the modality and that integrates
developed activities in the regular shift of classes and during the nighttime. Therefore, at
the end of this study, a contribution to the county Management is presented, as a proposal
action plan to boost the development and improvement of this public policy.
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