EFICIÊNCIA DOS GASTOS MUNICIPAIS EM EDUCAÇÃO NO PARANÁ.

The present study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of public investments in elementary education in the Paraná's counties in 2015. For that, techniques of data envelopment analysis (DEA), correlation analysis, clustering analysis and tests of means comparisons were used. Regarding the results, of the 389 only 13 counties were efficient; found a weak negative relationship between investments in education and schools and positive with teachers; efficiency has a strong negative relationship with investments and schools and weak negative with teachers and a weak positive relationship with IDEB; identified four distinct groups, which indicates that some counties that achieved better results with smaller resources and others that even making a significant contribution of resources did not reach results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]