relation: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/25011/ title: DECENTRALIZATION AND QUALITY SCHOOLS: LOCAL POLITICAL DYNAMICS creator: Kartono subject: ICFIE 2014 subject: Prosiding description: This research examined the role of local politics in supporting school improvement in Kebumen and examines the efforts of school stakeholders in improving the quality of schools in Kebumen. This study found that local politics is very important in realizing the quality of schools. Local elite joined the ranks of the board of education and the House of Representatives, and NGOs to be decisive political dynamics of education at the local level. Meanwhile, at the school level tactics and strategy relies heavily on the ability of the principal in influencing and implementing ideas to actions taken by the subject teachers, guidance counseling teachers, administrative staff, and the school committee including parents. Keywords: local politics, political dynamics, local elites, quality of schools. publisher: Pascasarjana UNY date: 2014 type: Article type: PeerReviewed format: text language: en identifier: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/25011/1/D-19.pdf identifier: Kartono (2014) DECENTRALIZATION AND QUALITY SCHOOLS: LOCAL POLITICAL DYNAMICS. International Conference on Fundamentals and Implementation of Education (ICFIE) 2014. ISSN 2406-9132 relation: http://pps.uny.ac.id