Em busca dos recursos perdidos – a saga dos precatórios do Fundef

The Union’s debt to municipalities resulting from de underpayment of financial resources as a complement to the Fund for the Development and Maintenance of Elementary Education and Recognition of Teaching Profession (FUNDEF), also known simply as “Fundef’s judiciary bond” is an old and well-known problem for those involved in the issue of education and external control, but generates consequences until today without giving signs of truce for the coming years. The present article intends to complie the main chapters of this history and perform a critical analysis of the judicial decisions and legislative innovations that permeate the case, focusing on the payment of allowances to teaching professionals and attorney’s fees with the portion related to interest on arrears of the judiciary bond.