The Fifth Cycle Teacher Corps Project was undertaken by the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle to a) fulfill a stated mission of a university especially created to help resolve urban problems, b) find effective ways to help an inner-city community utilize its own resources, and c) conduct research on the effective uses of evaluation in education reform projects. The project was set in the Pilsen, Heart of Chicago, and South Lawndale communities in the center of Chicago. This area contains the central cluster of the second largest urban group of Mexican-Americans in the United States. Many school-aged children speak little or no English. The schools, however, are still staffed mostly by "Anglo" personnel who do not speak Spanish and who know very little about the Mexican culture. By Board of Education edict, the public schools were off-limits to parents until 1968. Even after the schools were "opened," community residents continued to feel unwelcome on school premises and insecure in school affairs. This document recounts the efforts to develop a bilingual, bicultural ubran teacher education program in which the community played an active role. It deals with the origin of the project, operational problems encountered, solutions attempted, and the critical functions of systematic evaluation. Also included are statements of conclusion by the development coordinator. (A related document is SP 007 730.) (Author/DDO)