This work investigates the scope of the education policies for the public high school education of the state of Minas Gerais from 2007 to 2010. This period corresponds to the Management Shock introduced by governor Aécio Neves. The study regards the average performance of the students per municipality in the large scale evaluations promoted by the state government, demographic aspects and intrinsic characteristics of the municipalities of the Regional Office of Education, assessed by the rate of complexity of the offices. At first, the study brings references and discusses concepts on education politics and their scope, presenting the main social and demographic indicators of the municipalities as well as mapping the education politics implemented in the period studied. Then, the relation between the scope of the education politics for the high school education and the demographic municipal indicators is investigated. The estimation results of the model showed that the analysis of the scope of these programs revealed the non-existence of an integrated planning, although the government of Minas Gerais had implemented a varied set of projects and programs. This suggests that the programs and proposed projects were prepared in a centralized way, not taking into account the real education demands of the schools and the social and demographic characteristics of the municipalities. Regarding the scope of the policies implemented, it was found that they were implemented in a scattered form and with little unity among themselves, without being able to provide a general educational state policy. The study also revealed, based on the analysis of the average performance of the 3rd year high school students, that the existing educational inequality between municipalities remained unchanged throughout the period.