In June 2002, the Wyoming Department of Education contracted with MPR to perform develop minimum program criteria and guidelines to identify vocational programs, review of program delivery and structure to support the most cost-effective use of resources within schools, and the collection of data on student participation in, and district expenditures for vocational education. This paper presents our findings. It opens with a discussion of the state's obligation for funding vocational services and outlines a procedure used to weight student participation in vocational education. Section two summarizes the process used to build the funding model and arrays a set of recommendations governing model operation. Section three summarizes district data on vocational enrollment and equipment and supply expenditures for the 2001-02 school year. These data are used to model competing funding scenarios that the state may use to distribute vocational resources among populations, which are presented in section 4. The section closes with a summary of issues the legislature will need to address if the state is to successfully transition to the proposed funding mechanism.\r\n