This guide describes the framework designed to help schools in Idaho to develop vocational-technical education curricula and programs that address the training needs of employers and students. The framework was developed by a team of industry and educational personnel, encompassing six goals that reflect the expectations of industry as outlined in the Schools 2000 initiative and in the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report. The following are included in the guide: (1) principles for school reform; (2) definitions; (3) Schools 2000 vision; (4) questions and answers on performance-based education; (5) information on integration of learning; (6) vocational goals; (7) vocational goals/exit performance standards matrix; (8) an introduction that provides background, a mission statement, guiding principles, philosophy, description of a system of public schools, information on working with other educators, and description of the framework format; (9) the vocational-technical education curriculum framework, which includes standards, goals, performance objectives, progress indicators; and (10) secondary exit performance standards. (KC)