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The bill increases transparency and raises awareness of CTE options—helping many students make more informed, workforce-aligned choices—while imposing administrative burdens and hard limits on federal funding that could prevent programs from being implemented or shift costs to states and applicants.
Students and prospective CTE entrants gain clearer, consolidated access to program-level information (cost, completion time, employment outcomes) via the required website and a one-page FAFSA summary, helping them make more informed training and enrollment choices.
States and educational institutions can more easily locate Perkins Act-funded programs and offerings, which could improve program coordination, outreach, and uptake across localities.
Greater transparency and a required awareness step for applicants can reduce wasted time and money by steering some students toward workforce-aligned CTE pathways, improving job placement alignment for employers and lowering opportunity costs for individuals.
The Department of Education, FSA, states, and program providers must compile and continuously update program data and the FAFSA one-page summary, imposing administrative burdens and recurring staffing/time costs that could divert resources from other services.
Because the Act bars authorization of new funding, programs or services created or described may never receive federal support, preventing implementation or long-term sustainment and potentially denying intended beneficiaries the services promised.
Prohibiting federal funding could shift costs to state or local governments or private entities, increasing financial burdens on those actors and possibly reducing program reach or quality.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires FSA to publish CTE program/state data and adds a FAFSA one‑page CTE summary with acknowledgment; no new funding authorized.
Official title: To require the Secretary of Education to disclose information about career and technical education and funding under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, and require FAFSA applications to include a career and technical education acknowledgment.
Introduced February 26, 2025 by Roger Williams · Last progress February 26, 2025
Requires the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) to publish and keep updated online state-level and program-level information about career and technical education (CTE) programs (cost, completion time, employment rates, and where to pursue them). It also changes the FAFSA application so applicants first see a one‑page summary of that CTE information, an acknowledgment box, and a notification that CTE is a viable alternative to a four‑year degree. The law explicitly authorizes no new funding to implement these requirements.