This report describes the national Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) performance contracting experiment and three of its local programs. It also briefly outlines one state-level development in performance contracting. In the OEO experiment, 20 school districts were selected to represent diverse geographic settings; the common elements of the selected schools are that the children largely perform below grade level in reading and math and are from low-income families. Six profit-making instructional firms are subcontracting in three locations each. The two remaining districts are subcontracting with local affiliates in the National Education Association to test the impact of a teacher performance incentive approach. Each site has students assigned to experimental, comparison, or control groups for project evaluation. The three local projects described in detail are Stockton, California; Wichita, Kansas; and Jacksonville, Florida. A similar project is that of the State of Virginia which has arranged a contract between several school districts and Learning Research Associates of New York City. This project will be evaluated by the University of Virginia. (The document contains a table of projects with information under the following headings: location, contractor, date operational, funding, target students, subject areas, guaranteed learning gain and contractor payment.) (RT)