However defined, the quality of services under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act is heavily dependent on the setting in which those services are delivered. Working definitions of the following aspects of program delivery are presented as a means of establishing evaluation criteria: (1) the resources applied to a local program (input); (2) the operating characteristics of local programs (process); and (3) the consequences of local programs for students (output). The following Federal strategies for enhancing quality are reviewed: (1) the systematic use of information to draw attention to either good or bad behavior (jawboning); (2) the use of discretionary funding to reward and claim credit for local successes (piggybacking); and (3) the use of discretionary funding to underwrite program development in the most difficult circumstances (bootstrapping). A short list of references is included. (BJV)