This report focuses on the planning stages and first and second years of operation of the Community Education Planning Project (CEPP) of the Ocean View, Merced Heights, Ingleside (OMI) Community Association. Curricular and program changes in the planning period in the seven elementary schools of the area envisaged the development of these schools as exemplary ones. In the first operational year the project became a language arts program with emphasis on reading and community involvement. In the second operational year it became a reading project stressing on research and community involvement. The report also includes: research progress report on CEPP; evaluation instruments developed or adapted for use; some preliminary evaluation information; teacher workshop schedules; some services reaching outside the OMI area; and, the accomplishments of the OMI Community Association. Samples of Workshop evaluation sheets, attitude surveys, and skill inventories are included. [Because of the quality and size of the type, several pages of this document, including some tables, will not reproduce in hard copy (HC).] (RJ)