This report documents the efforts of four school districts to bring their communities into the decisionmaking process at the levels of basic educational philosophy and immediate local needs and goals. The document (1) identifies the procedures each district used to engage and involve the community in the decisionmaking process, (2) charts the…

Information is provided concerning California's newly enacted Early Childhood Education Program. The plan calls for restructuring the K-3 program to allow for: (1) lower adult-pupil ratios; (2) individualized, diagnostic instruction; (3) parent participation and involvement; (4) parent education; and (5) expanded inservice education to upgrade…

A framework is presented for district long-range instructional planning which takes into account the financial uncertainty caused by the funding cuts of California's Proposition 13--the Jarvis-Gann initiative of 1978. (SJL)