During fiscal year 1994, South Dakota's vocational-technical education delivery system served 30,498 secondary students, 3,809 postsecondary students, and 8,358 adults. Of South Dakota's 178 school districts, 132 had to organize into some type of consortium arrangement to qualify for Perkins Act funds. The Perkins funds were used to provide support services (including special assessments, tutors, adaptive equipment, counseling, and pre-academic classes) to students identified as members of the following special populations: disadvantaged, handicapped, limited English proficient, academically disadvantaged, enrollees in nontraditional programs, and single parents and single pregnant women. Among the other purposes for which Perkins funds were used were the following: development of performance standards and core measures; development/delivery of staff development workshops/seminars on topics such as technology education, applied academics, tech prep, and vocational guidance; provision of vocational guidance services; development of 16 new secondary programs and 6 new/expanded postsecondary programs; purchase of competency-based instructional materials in 7 occupational areas and equipment representative of that being used in industry; and development of mentor programs at a higher education institution preparing vocational teachers. (Appended are the following: two local evaluation forms, descriptions of seven exemplary programs, and tech prep, the 1993 South Dakota Career Assessment Program survey instrument and tabulated results.) (MN)