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A brief review of-a school system in Aldt Rock, California that uses the voucher, this paper focuses'on an,educational strategy intended to maximize-the school's responsiveness to the expressed needs of the parents. The ideas and values Underlying the development of the voucher school, the problems of Operationalizatiou, as these are said to influence the measures used in the research cited, are discussed. The paper,also deals with (1) some of the Alum Rock data on rates of parental participation, where the indices of participation inclide both school and non-sphool context and rely on both attitudinal and reported behavioral measures' of iartj.cipation; and (2) some correlates ofparental participation such as education, ethnicity, income, and occupation in the voucher schools, drawing inferences about the implications of these varying rates of participation on the eduicational processes shaped by the voucher school system. The pdttern*of'findings is said to b