This performance report summarizes the services and activities provided for youth and adults in secondary and postsecondary vocational education in North Carolina from July 1987-June 1988, as mandated by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Data are provided to reflect services to special populations, trends, growth in enrollment, student and employer assessment of the value of vocational education, and business-industry participation and contribution to quality control. The first part of the report contains information on secondary education in the following four sections: (1) services and activities for the handicapped, disadvantaged, limited English proficient, and nontraditional students (sex equity); (2) new programs, expanded programs, career guidance, personnel development, curriculum development, equipment, research, and other improvement activities; (3) home economics services and activities; and (4) programs and services provided jointly by eligible recipients and community-based organizations. The second part of the report contains information on postsecondary education in two sections: (1) handicapped, disadvantaged, limited English proficient, adults in need of training and retraining, single parents and homemakers, nontraditional students (sex equity), and criminal offenders in correctional institutions; and (2) accomplishments under a category where limited resources were available for the purpose. (KC)