The Response to Educational Needs Project (RENP) encompasses a staff of approximately 85 people, operates in 15 schools, functions within the educational and political context of the District of Columbia Public Schools in general and specifically within Region I, works with multiple constituencies, and is directed by several layers of management. It is considered to be important to understand how broad, educational policies are generated for the project and further, how these policies are implemented. There are several potential contributors to the policies which govern RENP, foremost of which is the Anacostia Community School Board. Three policies generated by the RENP committee and approved by the board, served as foci for this study. Those policies are: (1) the Local School Board shall have a direct involvement in their schools' dealings with concerns of importance to their local community; (2) the Anacostia Community School Board shall have a direct involvement in the schools of Region I, dealing with concerns brought to them by the local school boards as being untreatable at the local level; and (3) the Unit Task Forces at each school shall include in their composition at least three parents and one student, to provide direct input from the community to RENP. (Author/JM)