(Mensaje se repite en Español) I believe that one of the most important changes that could be instituted to bring about a profound positive change in our school system would be the changing of its physical organization. The model that we have used in our big cities for over a hundred years is based on a
factory model of regimentation that has even been rejected by productive factories in the post-industrial period. Since
W. Edward Deming changed the focus of Japanese factories from the "top-down" model they inherited from the Americans and the Europeans before them, the emphasis has been on work groups that set their own priorities in search of a better quality product and higher levels of production.
In order to achieve this same goal with education in the LAUSD, I would change the organization and control of the school. For example, in the average high school which takes
