Designed for administrators and teachers, this curriculum framework outlines a comprehensive business and office education program that is both general education and career preparation. Section 1 provides an overview of the business and office education program. Topics include role and scope of the business and office education program, career education, role of the business teacher, student organizations related to business, business and office education and the community, teacher education, administration of the program, and safety. In section 2 planning the student's curriculum is discussed. Following an overview of granting credit, scheduling of courses, local course offerings, and bilingual courses, a chart summarizing recommended and/or desirable business and office courses is described. The third section contains descriptions of the thirty-one courses in the thirteen course categories as discussed in section 2: accounting and recordkeeping, business communications, business data processing, business law, business mathematics, career investigation, finance, management, office procedures, shorthand and notetaking, typewriting, idependent study, and vocational office education. (YLB)