An application for a proposed South Umpqua School District (Oregon) Experimental Schools project is provided. The project will personalize and intensify those instructional processes dealing with basic education and career preparation. The goals of the project are: A. Operational Processes--personalization of instruction, parent/patron involvement, community learning centers, increased emphasis on cultural learning; B. Instructional Goals--increase direct experience of the learner, provide unique learning experiences, provide greater inclusion of the family in planning, increase student involvement in planning, increase community/student/staff sharing of decision making, increase community involvement, provide greater community access to the school, create a supportive educational climate, and provide both direct and indirect learning experiences; C. Student Goals--master the needed competencies in the basic skills (cognitive, affective, and psychomotor), form positive self-concept, acquire knowledge and skill to perform in complex social interactions, tolerance of others and their ideas, make informed choices about life styles and careers, build confidence in ability to make changes, have a rational and inquiring approach to problems and their solutions, form goals and pursue them, value and participate in creative expression, examine moral choices, have socially acceptable patterns of behavior; and D. Institutional Goals--provide a curriculum which is articulated vertically and horizontally, staff and train staff for schools, involve community and school patrons, ensure utilization of time, space, and facilities, evaluate the SUES project, and establish renewal mechanisms. The application has 10 sections. (DB)