ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the options for LEAs in reorganizing their schools and describes the variety of actual strategies used. It identifies the underlying patterns to reorganization. The argument for the common institution and the differentiated curriculum was given expression in the DES. Mark Carlisle published the report of the Macfarlane Committee which developed this DES argument. Local and national planners had the same objective although investing in it alternative interpretations. School leavers, increasingly regarded as young adults, would be encouraged to negotiate the learning programmes and be supported by a pastoral base in each community comprehensive school. This base would comprise a devolved careers service, employment officers, and youth workers, as well as teachers in a new partnership of professionals serving the needs of young people and the community. The ruling policy however was for community education and using spare capacity in schools to extend the participation of adults, youth and pensioner clubs.
