Decentralization in the Memphis schools has succeeded in creating a closer working relationship between the administration and the schools. In the Central Area, the administration is made up of assistant (area) superintendents, instructional consultants, and principals. Although area superintendents are members of the superintendent's staff and participate in systemwide deliberation, they spend most of their time working directly with the schools. The instructional consultants link with principals, teachers, and area superintendents and can take information up and down the administrative ladder. Total staff involvement at the administrative level takes place with regular meetings between the instructional consultants and the area superintendents, between groups of principals and the superintendents, and between individual principals and superintendents and consultants. Involvement at the school level is presented in a description of the adoption of a minimum skills program. The program is marked by active flow of information from teachers to consultants and principals and in the other direction. Communication was increased within and between schools as a result of the program. (Author/IRT)