The Implementation of School-Based Management to Alleviate the Quality of Education in High Schools and Vocational Schools in Minahasa Regency

Abstract

The efforts to alleviate the quality of education become the sustainable commitment of many involving stakeholders by applying many approaches. Those efforts stem from the awareness for the importance of education in developing human resources and nation character building to a better quality of society and nation. The dignity of a nation enhances greatly due to the quality of education. The implementation of School-Based Management in High Schools and Vocational Schools in Minahasa to upgrade the quality of education is inevitably as School-Based Management which has a great potential to support new paradigm in educational management in its relation to regional autonomy and education decentralization. These two activities represent the efforts in alleviating education quality, in particular to ensure the achievement of vision and mission established by Minahasa Government in education sector. Therefore, the concept of School-Based Management in Minahasa Regency needs wise response and enthusiastic appreciation from all parties involving in improving education quality. The success of the implementation of School-Based Management in Minahasa can be seen from the result of evaluation that shows the needs for more programs to improve the quality of education in Minahasa. The programs has been implemented in 31 High Schools and 12 Vocational Schools located in 25 districts in Minahasa Regency. In general, the implementation of school-based management is perceived as successful due to the results of the evaluation and the need for continuity of the implementation of School-Based Management in Minahasa regency.