The San Diego City Schools Research Cooperative is an attempt to integrate the work of practitioners, researchers, and community members to meet the individual needs of each group while providing programmatic, practical research findings to district officials. This paper discusses issues pertaining to the development of a research cooperative: the individual needs of research cooperative participants, and the risks and benefits involved in establishing a cooperative relationship between practitioners, researchers, and community members. Further, this paper provides background information that offers assistance to other districts interested in pursuing this idea. Appended examples of documents presently occurring in the development of San Diego's research cooperative include:"Formation of a Research Cooperative" outlining the proposed structure of the research cooperative and "Research Agenda from the Task Force on the Achievement of Hispanic Students" describing a working draft produced by cooperative members. Although the results are not in yet, the initial developmental stages of the San Diego City Schools Research Cooperative have been positive and encouraging (PN)