The author investigates specifi c features of managing bodies’ eff orts to increase the quality of education. The case of high school profi lization is used to illustrate the purposes of the increase in the quality of education services and to show the necessity of the restructuring of urban school networks in order to achieve these goals. The author describes organizational, fi nancial, work power, and control mechanisms likely to be involved in the task. Besides that, he considers ways of interaction with the external environment of local education systems to be used by the local managing bodies.