This memorandum clarifies the latest policy changes at the Federal level relative to the provision of educational services (including language programs and desegregation) to national origin minority students. The information in the memo is based on a review of the legal obligations which school districts are currently subject to, according to the latest interpretations of the law by the courts and on internal directives issued by the Office for Civil Rights as of June 1982, on national origin minority compliance requirements. The memo, in a question and answer format, discusses present and likely future requirements for the development and revision of Lau compliance plans. (CMG)