The aim of this paper was to investigate ideological conflicts related to the current educational system reform in the Republic of Croatia – The Complete Curricular Reform. Specific goals were to identify key conflict actors that hamper its implementation, ideological position they represent, the interests and goals of these actors, arguments they use to achieve their goals, topics of the controversy and the actors that are interested in these topics. In order to achieve these goals we used the case study methodology and qualitative content analysis in which the case was attempted implementation of the Complete Curricular Reform, and the analyzed contents were the three most widely used web portals in Croatia: 24sata.hr, Večernji.hr i Dnevnik.hr, web portals of prominent actors: portal Narod.hr, GOOD initiative website and website of the party Hrast, and finally the document of the National Curriculum Framework. As a framework for the analysis of the results we used the theory of conservative modernization of American critical pedagogue Michael Apple, according to which leadership in the development of educational policies and educational reforms assumes a new alliance or a "new hegemonic block" assembled under a rather large umbrella, consisting of four major groups: neoliberals, neoconservatives, authoritarian populists, and a new middle class of experts and managers. Each of these groups has their own relatively autonomous history and dynamics, but all are simultaneously involved in a wider conservative movement. By analyzing the collected data we concluded that representatives of all groups of conservative modernization are present and involved in public hearings, but not all are represented in equal proportions and do not have all of the features Apple has described in his theory of conservative modernization. There are many elements of the conservative modernization movement described by Apple, but there is still missing a greater influence of the neoliberal policy in education that would be involved in the market competition. The conservative currents in Croatia are more pronounced, and they are trying to influence more and more loudly the educational policies and contents that are being taught in schools.