The present study aimed to analyze the education policies in the era of educational reform. This policy is very monumental in the history of education in Indonesia, where enormous authority is given directly to schools. The schools can develop their respective innovations in developing a treatment for students in learning, the authority to determine the learning time, and the autonomy to compile their own learning textbooks according to the agreed curriculum. But the most important thing is to be able to produce outstanding students. Therefore, if student achievement decreases, society cannot blame the agreed policy. Furthermore, the local education offices have an important role in providing solutions to the educational problem in that area. Moreover, the principal has a significant role in education management at the region level, especially in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which demands all education actors have maximum competence and also compete with the global business and industrial world.