This congressional hearing contains testimony given in Montpelier, Vermont, at the first of a series of nationwide hearings on vocational education. Focus of this particular hearing is on the specific needs of Vermont as a rural northeastern state to train a workforce that is talented enough to help retrain existing businesses and industry and attract new growth to the state's economy. Included among the businesses, industries, and educational industries represented at the hearing were the following: Division of Vocational Education, Vermont Department of Education; Hayward Tyler Pump; Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation; Fellows Corporation; Vermont Technical College; the Vermont Educational Association; the Council for Exceptional Children; and the Vermont Coalition of the Handicapped. (MN)