Transformative Policy Of School Principal In Escalating Competitiveness

This research is motivated by current education which is gradually more dynamic and competitive along with advances in technology, information and dynamic globalization. The school principal as the main person in charge in an educational institution must have policy as strategy in escalating competitiveness. The challenge for the realm of education today is that it is required to have courage and be innovative in determining transformative policies to be able to survive, compete, contribute, fill in, become a pioneer, and be able to settle all the quaint problems of Indonesia. In spite of different characteristics, the two institutions as the object of this research have an equal position in attaining the objective of national education. This research applied qualitative approach method with the type of field research which is designed in form of a multi-case study, data analysis: sole and cross-case. Technique for checking the validity of the data in this study includes several elements: dependability, credibility, transferability and confirmability. From the study result, the researcher concluded that the school principal's transformative policy towards competitiveness enhancement had implication for increasing competitiveness or competitive excellence, i.e.:a) input excellence (PPDB), b) competitiveness process c) superiority of output competitiveness (graduation score), d) eminence of outcome competitiveness (accepted graduates in college), e) superiority of academic and non-academic achievements competitiveness, and f) excellence of institutional achievement