O ensino de 2° grau no Rio Grande do Norte entre 1971 e 1996

This paper tries to analyze the actions developed by the government of Rio Grande do Norte (RN) to implement the professional second degree level in the schools of the state, between the decades of 1970 and 1990. It is both a bibliographical and documental study, with sources collected in the Rio Grande do Norte’s Secretary of Education and Culture. On the process to understand the subject of study, the main question is: which actions did the State develop to implement the changes on the second degree at the period in focus? The partial results indicate three categories of schools at that time: the created schools, the transformed schools and the schools assumed by the state. The results also indicate that the state of RN had high schools in all its mid regions, and the distribution of these teaching institutions among its regions did not had a clear criteria. What this paper concludes is that more schools were implemented in urban areas next to the capital of the state than in the regions away of the urban centers.