The California State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held an open meeting in east Los Angeles in June 1967, to collect information about civil rights problems in the Mexican American community. The meeting dealt particularly with problems in education. Specific problems presented by parents, students, and community leaders centered on the lack of effective communication between the school system and its minority constituency, and included parental involvement, indifference of school personnel, inadequacy of curriculum, insufficiency of special program funding, and recency of problem recognition. Recommendations made by the Committee to both Federal and State governments included: (1) adequate appropriations to continue, expand, and initiate new programs designed to aid Mexican Americans; (2) teacher-training programs designed to encourage involvement by bilingual and Mexican American teachers; (3) investigations of standardized testing instruments for cultural bias and development of bilingual and bicultural tests; and (4) expansion of the curriculum to include bilingual and bicultural materials that relate to the minority communities. (DK)