The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in Sec. 113(b)(2)(A) and (B) of "Perkins IV." This report is the Department's ninth annual report to Congress under "Perkins IV." It presents data that states submitted to the Department for program year (PY) 2015-16. For PY 2015-16, each state, operating under the eighth year of its five-year plan pursuant to Sec. 122(a)(1) of "Perkins IV," was also required by the secretary to report the following, as instructed in the Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) for the "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" for PY 2015-16: (1) Enrollment data for career and technical education (CTE) participants (Appendix A, table A-2) in CTE programs, including disaggregated data for CTE students by gender, race/ethnicity, and special population and other student categories; (2) Enrollment data for CTE concentrators (Appendix A, table A-1) in CTE programs, including disaggregated data for CTE students by gender, educational level, and the career clusters recognized by the Department; and (3) Performance data for CTE concentrators on the "Perkins IV" Sec. 113(b)(2)(A) and (B) core indicators. This report to Congress comprises three sections. The introduction describes the "Perkins IV" accountability requirements as well as efforts by the Department to help states establish valid and reliable measures, and rigorous performance levels for the "Perkins IV" Sec. 113(b) core indicators. The state performance data section provides information on states' progress in meeting their performance levels for the required "Perkins IV" Sec. 113(b) core indicators for PY 2015-16. The conclusion reports on the implementation of CTE under "Perkins IV." Individual state data profiles are provided in Appendix B of this report. [For the 2014-15 report, see ED613245.]