During the 1987 and 1988 fiscal years, the Illinois State Board of Education supported a number of vocational education curriculum-related activities. These activities were required by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, which mandated the establishment of technical committees to advise on curricular needs of the state and by a state policy to include a systematic program of curriculum renewal. The State Board established 3-year priorities for state-developed task lists needing to be verified for future curriculum development. State technical committees met to identify and/or verify duties and tasks of workers in eight occupations and one general area: employability and basic skills. Each region reviewed its curriculum by verifying the task lists of all programs. Projects that fund curriculum and curriculum-related material development activities of the State Board were undertaken in such areas as employability skills, business and marketing curriculum, industrial-technical education, education for employment, and state goals for learning. The State Board participated in several national consortia to develop curriculum and instructional materials, made every effort to incorporate inservice education, and had two major dissemination mechanisms (a curriculum materials collection center and a curriculum materials replication program). (The report concludes with recommendations to and suggested actions by the State Board to improve curriculum efforts. Six resources are listed.) (YLB)