The purpose of this paper is to discuss some measures that highlight the growing attention from the Brazilian government towards the institutions for secondary education following the executive order 19.890, of April 18, 1931. Thus, it starts from the analysis of the document entitled "Classification of Secondary Education Establishments", of the Ministry of Education and Health, embodied in the regulation of April 15, 1932, which was prepared by Anísio Teixeira, Paulo de Assis Ribeiro, Otavio Martins, among others who examined the standards of Strayer and Engelhardt searching for norms deemed necessary to adopt and adapt to Brazil; as well as its repercussions in a secondary education establishment founded in Curitiba, in 1935, namely the Ginásio Belmiro César, using the legislation about the secondary education and federal inspection reports as sources. The legislation that came into force in the 1930's aimed to homogenize secondary education in public and private institutions, throughout the national territory. Among the supplementary measures adopted, special attention is deserved to the implementation of a systematic of inspection, through which higher levels of efficiency, rationality and control could be achieved. Although official documents and studies regarding the subject emphasize the vast difficulties faced by the federal government to operate the systematic of inspection instituted, its disciplinary force and the control of the federal inspectors can be verified, in the case of the Ginásio Belmiro César.
Secondary Education; Public Inspection; Paraná
