This report aims to improve the administration of intergovernmental education by contributing information about specific and practicable ways in which such improvement may be accomplished. The study focuses on two important problems of Federal-State-local administration of elementary and secondary education: (1) inadequately coordinated and poorly timed program authorizations and appropriations; and (2) a multiplicity of necessary and desirable, as well as unnecessary and counterproductive, requirements that constitute an organizational overload on official agencies at all levels. (Author/JF)