To determine the needs of Spanish-speaking students with limited English-speaking ability who are enrolled in all levels of vocational education, a series of three workshops were conducted to assess the vocational education needs of Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans and to identify the commonalities and divergencies of the needs resulting from the assessments. Participants in the workshops, which were conducted in the southwestern and eastern parts of the country, included representatives from the Spanish-speaking American vocational education community, state decision makers, and vocational educators concerned with attracting Spanish-speaking Americans into vocational education. The findings of all three workshops were analyzed and synthesized by a representative task force, and a state of the art report was prepared. The thirty-one recommendations derived from the synthesis focused on three basic components of an effective plan of action (recruitment, program development, and personnel development). These recommendations were presented to state and federal agencies concerned with vocational education in hopes that the recommendations would be implemented in a plan of action. (BM)