The Municipal Department of Education has the functions of planning, organizing, coordinating, interacting, executing, evaluating and promoting actions aimed at education in the municipality, integrating public policies for democratization and access to free and quality education in Education plans of the State and the Union. Mission: Plan and implement educational actions within the municipal education system through the promotion of public policies of democratization and access to public education, free of charge and of quality in the different levels and modalities of education. The Municipal Government of São Carlos, through the Municipal Education Department, has as one of its fundamental principles the search for a free, quality and inclusive public school. Understanding Inclusion as a commitment to produce culture, to understand expressive abilities that have not been foreseen. More info on the website: http://www.saocarlos.sp.gov.br/index.php/a-secretaria.html