Title: As tramas das politicas educacionais locais
Abstract: Case study of mishaps involved in the implementation of municipal policies on education, with emphasis on continuous training of teachers in the initial grades of elementary school in the municipality of Paripueira -Al, in the period from 2001 to 2007.The idea of this research came from the personal experiences and professional researcher to act as educational coordinator, teacher from the initial series of elementary school and above, as union leader.For data collection were used official documents of the Court of Accounts of the State of Alagoas, the Union of Education Workers of Alagoas -SINTEAL, Official Gazette of the State, among other sources referred to as documented by Expeleta & Rockwell (1986).To these are added not only nondocumented sources expressed in 13 semi-structured audio-recorded with teachers, staff / os, coordination and direction of the educational system of the school council, but the field notes and redemption of own experience of teacher-researcher.The empirical material was organized and codified through inventory data, submitted to triangulations after descriptive analysis, and finally examined from a broader categories.Contextualized in the neoliberal policies that marked the moment analysis, but trying to sort them in the specific conditions of public education in the Brazilian state of Alagoas, the data collected to analyze the possible actions in this policy formulated by the municipal public education over the period.It was also possible to understand and are being experienced / characterized the public policies that are present in the daily / education professionals.The voices in the research show that the implementation of public policies of the period investigated does not meet the interests of / the worker / s or education of the population that needs it.For this analysis, it was essential to understand how to develop public policies maintained through force of local and political relations based on old oligarchic and coronelísticas still present in the organization of the State apparatus in Alagoas in that period.