Abstract
The curriculum is a comprehensive program tool that reflects the quality of a country's education and has a strategic role in national development. Therefore, systematic and professional efforts are needed to manage the curriculum in a dynamic and integrated manner, taking into account all aspects related to achieving national education goals. The purpose of this article is to examine the contents of the curriculum, problems with Curriculum Management and government policies in managing the curriculum to create superior schools. The results of this research show that government policy in managing the curriculum is funding the curriculum, facilitating the presence of educators and education personnel for the curriculum, developing a curriculum based on local wisdom, and teacher policies for implementing the curriculum. The study in this article provides readers with insight into recognizing government policies in managing the curriculum to create superior schools. This information is about government policies implemented for curriculum management as well as curriculum problems which can be a source of inspiration for developing curriculum management to make it even better