Democratic management in education systems: the experience of municipal education Conferences and the Tocantins collaboration network in the 21st century

Brazilian municipalities, particularly in Tocantins state, are amidst the planning, organization and execution of the Municipal Education Conferences this second semester of 2021. This paper aims to understand the Municipal Education Conferences as an element within the Municipal Education System and as a space to make real the principle of democratic management in education, having the Municipal Education Plan as a reference and a focus. Sourcing from bibliographical and documental, this study highlights that the process of making the conferences may serve as mechanism and space of resistance, assertive, propositive and assessive of public educational policies, favoring the autonomy of municipal networks and systems as opposed to the dismantling and depletion of public education by the federal government.