This report by the National Advisory Council on Equality of Educational Opportunity (NACEEO) contains the major activities undertaken for 1976 and delineates the recommendations made for that year. The recommendations made are in the areas of legislation, administration and special projects. Two of the 1976 recommendations are: (1) state education agencies should be given the role of operating the Emergency School Aid Act basic, pilot, and NPO programs under a state allocation formula and under administrative procedures similar to that now in effect for Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and (2) the Commissioner of Education should adhere to the predetermined dates established for receipt and processing of ESAA applications with more uniformity than has been the case for the past three years. A summary of 1976 recommendations and of recommendations of previous years is also provided. Part II of this paper contains the report of the evaluation committee of the National Advisory Council on Equality of Educational Opportunity. The purposes of this report are: (1) to provide NACEEO with a summary statement about the findings of desegregation studies and about the quality of the evaluation undertaken by the System Development Corporation (SDC) in comparison with other evaluations of educational programs, (2) to present verbatim the report of the independent consultant about the reports issued by SDC for Year II of ESAA, and (3) to provide NACEEO with some recommendations for consideration for action which were developed by the Evaluation Committee. (Author/AM)