A monograph for school district personnel and education agencies presents a comprehensive plan to address the legal and administrative complexities of implementation of services for language minority students, particularly in bilingual education programs. The first section sketches federal involvement in bilingual education and related programs and outlines some of the responses from local education agencies. The second section discusses issues faced by providers of technical assistance in overcoming resistance to change. It looks at introducing bilingual education into a district, voluntary and mandated change, technical assistance centers, and the role of the technical assistance provider. Section three outlines and examines substantive options for school districts in program design, teacher training, and evaluation. Program design issues include district-wide bilingual education policy, program fragmentation, language arts instruction programs, entry and exit criteria, and content area instruction. Teacher and training issues include finding appropriate bilingual and English-as-a-second-language staff, bilingual materials, and inservice training program design. Evaluation issues include the potential advantages and problems evaluation poses, types of evaluation, creating effective evaluation, and data analysis and interpretation. (MSE)