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Schools take a lesson from big business – DECENTRALIZE NOW !!!

Of ideas for improving the public schools, none sounds more dull and dreary than decentralization.

Yet since DuPont introduced decentralization to business nearly 90 years ago, large companies have stumbled across few ideas that have better withstood the test of time. Now, momentum is building from New York City to San Francisco to Miami to decentralize public schools and drag them into the 1920s.

There are 12 school districts in the USA that have more than 10,000 teachers, and that’s not counting non-teaching employees. Companies that grow past 1,500 employees start to bulk up at the center and become bureaucratic, says UCLA management professor William Ouchi.

By Del Jones, USA TODAY

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-03-08-principals-cover-usat_x.htm

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