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Negotiators reach consensus on Workforce Pell Grant rules; Department commits to publish performance data
Summary
Department of Education negotiators reached consensus on draft Workforce Pell Grant regulations after reviewing redlines and adding changes on certification, placement metrics, exemptions and data sharing. The department committed to publish program performance data —as soon as practicable— and to pose directed operational questions in the rule'making preamble.
Negotiators for the U.S. Department of Education's Workforce Pell Grant rulemaking reached consensus on a comprehensive draft text after a final-day review of departmental redlines, the department said. The committee's facilitators circulated corrections and updated language; negotiators then held a single consensus check in which each constituency reported a thumbs-up or a nonblocking sideways vote.
The department's lead negotiator, David Musser, walked the committee through several notable changes the department added in response to comments, including: requiring governors to document consideration of program cost relative to anticipated wages when certifying eligible workforce programs; adding 6-digit Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) and Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes to certification materials; requiring public posting of interstate (bilateral) agreements between…
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