The Missouri state plan for vocational education for 1989-1990 calls for increasing the rate and quality of the participation of targeted populations (handicapped, disadvantaged, adults, single parents/homemakers, persons seeking job training in occupations that are nontraditional for their gender, and incarcerated persons) at appropriate instructional levels. The plan also calls for continuing implementation of the state's vocational instructional management system. Other major goals stipulated in the state plan include implementing a system of vertical articulation, increasing the role of vocational education in the state's economic development activities, developing a systematized approach to developing equipment replacement plans appropriate to each vocational program area, improving and expanding career guidance and counseling programs, and improving and updating consumer and homemaking education programs in the state. (Appendixes include a summary of recommendations made at public hearings on the Missouri state plan for vocational education, state and/or federal reimbursement for vocational education programs, and local application for federal vocational education funding.) (MN)