When Paulo Renato de Souza accepts appointment to become a minister of education in Brazil, he is faced with extreme challenges. Public education in the most populous country in Latin America is widely regarded as a failure. Brazil's huge population of poor children often attend schools that are both physically and poor have insufficient textbooks. His own department saw a parade of ineffective leaders and only indirectly the public authority responsible for primary education. HKS Case Number 1571.0 "Hide
by Merilee Grindle, Pamela Varley 11 pages. Publication Date: March 1, 2000. Prod. #: HKS423-PDF-ENG
