Educational Public Policy Formulation Process

Abstract

A public policy begins with a policy formulation process. This also applies to public education policies. This study aims to determine how the process of formulation of public education policies. The results of the study show that the formulation of public education policies is an effort to formulate various series of concepts and principles that become the outline and basic plans in the implementation of educational activities as well as a guideline for education management or managers in an effort to achieve the expected educational goals or objectives. In the process, several problems were found, including education policy makers lack of knowledge, information, information, and educational issues both conceptually and substantially, sources of reference for educational policy makers, both formal and informal, are different, because Therefore, a compromise/middle way is often taken as an alternative to accommodate it, and too much or too little information can result in unclear education policy statements