The New Jersey Vocational Education Basic Skills Commission was formed to examine issues related to preparing students to pass the state's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT), which must be passed by both academic and vocational students before they can graduate from high school. The commission decided that vocational teachers should have no additional involvement in providing remedial instruction to students failing the HSPT; rather, a basic skills class should be required in lieu of academic electives. Vocational schools should provide separate remediation classes and should allow sending schools to meet the general academic requirements. Students who fail the HSPT and who select a vocational program should be scheduled for a summer program following the ninth grade. In addition, basic skills should be infused into all vocational-technical programs to help students continue to develop and use basic skills. Sending schools must provide the best possible education from grades K through 12 as well as any remediation required to help students enrolled in shared time vocational schools to meet graduation requirements. Full-time vocational schools should provide students failing the HSPT help in obtaining the necessary basic skills instruction by replacing academic electives with a basic skills class, modifying academic courses, and modifying exploratory courses. A team of basic skills teachers from sending schools should work with vocational teachers to infuse basic skills into vocational courses through a competency-based program. (A report describing the project during which the six position papers were developed is included along with the actual papers and an executive summary of their main points.) (MN)