Being the largest education reform for the past 45 years，Taiwan’s 12-Year Public Education was launched in September 2014 finally. However，the controversy had been continued since the policy was announced，even after its implementation. Examining the results of the implementation in the first year，among four core values of the policy，only “non-compulsory” had been fully achieved through legislation. The rest of them，“universal”，“free tuition”，and “exam-free”，hadn’t been delivered properly through the execution. The inconsistency reflected the contradictory thinking and compromise character of the authorities.