A checklist for critiquing participatory planning and evaluation projects is introduced. Under the legislative mandate of "Florida Blueprint 2000: A System of School Improvement and Accountability," Florida schools must reorganize before the year 2000 by involving and connecting stakeholders in improvement processes. Every public school must have a School Advisory Council comprised of teachers, students, parents, and members of the community. The participatory approaches used in three projects in Leon County (Florida) schools are described. The first section of the paper provides a rationale for the contents of the checklist derived from extant professional evaluation standards and participatory evaluation literature. The second section is devoted to applying the checklist to the three projects and evaluating them with respect to their foci, stakeholder identification and involvement, organization and negotiation processes, technical methods, reporting, and evaluation utilization and benefits. Lessons learned from recent participatory experiences include the importance of involving stakeholders in defining the project's goals and in conducting the project. In addition, participatory evaluators should establish the facilitative nature of their roles with stakeholders, but should be ready to assume various responsibilities as the need arises. An appendix presents the evaluation checklist. (Contains 18 references.) (SLD)