This report chronicles the history of the East Hartford Connecticut Parents' Choice Project, the planning phase of a proposed education voucher program financed by the National Institute of Education (NIE), from February 1975 through January 1976. The report is based on the observations of an independent site historian, who attempted to be as unobtrusive in his observing and as nonjudgmental in his reporting as possible. A total of 41 site visits were made during the study. Chapter 1 introduces the report's main issues and events by examining the January 1976 vote by the East Hartford Board of Education to not pursue a five-year experimental voucher program. Chapter 2 discusses NIE's involvement in the Parents' Choice Project, and chapter 3 describes the participation of East Hartford's two parochial schools in the project. Chapter 4 examines in chronological order a series of major topics that affected the overall course of the Parents' Choice Project. (Author/JG)