This needs assessment statements bank has been prepared as a resource for school districts that are engaged in the Local Planning and Assessment Process. Its purpose is to provide local educators with a variety of statements that can be used directly or with modification in preparing a needs assessment survey. Under each of eight broad goal areas--aesthetic, cultural, economic, personal, physical, political, social, and learning environment--are two columns of statements. The column on the left consists of program level goals from the goals bank, the column on the right shows the needs assessment statements that might be used on a survey assessing attainment of that goal. (Author/IRT)