The study of the implementation of education reform is an effort to respond the implementation of a new paradigm in education, whose goal is to enhance the quality of education in Bengkulu city in line with the implementation of decentralization. In fact, however, the education system has not pro-community yet. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct this study using descriptive qualitative r method. The data was obtained based on the record of physical environment, dialogue, interview, and reflection of thinking.
The finding shows that the implementation of education reform only affects the alteration of regulation on the entry process, not on a new mechanism and procedure having to be obeyed by student candidates. At the school level, the alteration occurs on the rank of school quality permanently, so that the chance for competition among schools is closed, and teachers are lost of confidence due to police’s intervention on the storage of examination texts, courtes y and guarding. A number of weaknesses of the implementation of education reform are the effect of the national reform agenda. The implementation of education reform is only limited on the formulation of new structure of apparatus and institutions. As a result, its pattern is the same as the reform on the other field, such as law and politics
