The educational development programs of Latin American nations have frequently floundered because of an inability to plan, organize, and execute decisions effectively and to deliver resources with precision and dispatch. This study documents and analyzes Colombia's effort to resolve this problem in its educational institution through the process of organizational and administrative reform. Within the administrative process, the central concept under observation is decisionmaking in the Ministry of Education. An onsite, field research methodology was used to gather data in 1965, 1969, and 1973. Working within the context of organizational theory, the study is reported in three stages: the pre-reform era, in which a condition of administrative "semi-anarchy" in the separate States prohibited the Ministry from developing a more effective use of human and material resources; a reform plan, designed to bring the States under closer federal control; and a current reform program suggestion -- a transitional device that will probably evolve through planning into a more effective mechanism of educational development. (Author/DN)