This companion volume to "Education in the States: Historical Development and Outlook" (SP 002 973) provides information in 16 areas of concern to state departments of education. Each chapter was written separately and is devoted to one of the areas: the legal and constitutional powers in education of the states; the development, functions, and working conditions of the state departments of education; the development and organization of state school systems; major developments in state school financing; the purposes of education and ways to achieve these purposes in public schools; the history and philosophy of vocational education; the expansion and implementation of programs for lifelong education such as adult education; the development and organization of pupil personnel services; the development of teacher education, certification, and accreditation; the effects of school construction design on pupil achievement; the impact of federal legislation and policy on state departments of education; important stages and developments of federally supported school food services; the ways and means to implement vocational rehabilitation programs; the history of the relationships between the organized teaching profession and state departments of education; the functional relationships between state departments of education and higher education; and the public relations activities of state departments of education. (SM)