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Final Priority and Definitions-Secretary's Supplemental Priority and Definitions on Career Pathways and Workforce Readiness
The Education Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on April 13, 2026. It took effect on May 13, 2026.
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What the agency says
The Department of Education (Department) announces a final priority and definitions for use in currently authorized discretionary grant programs or programs that may be authorized in the future. The Secretary may choose to use the entire priority for a grant program or a particular competition or use one or more of the priority's component parts. This priority and definitions augment the initial set of three Secretary's Supplemental Priorities on Evidence-Based Literacy, Educational Choice, and Returning Education to the States published as final priorities on September 9, 2025; the additional Secretary's Supplemental Priorities on Meaningful Learning Opportunities, published as a final priority on February 12, 2026, and Advancing Artificial Intelligence in Education, published as a final priority elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register; and the additional proposed Secretary's Supplemental Priority on Promoting Patriotic Education published as a proposed priority on September 17, 2025.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-07084
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final priority and definitions
- Agency
- Education Department
- Published
- April 13, 2026
- Takes effect
- May 13, 2026
- Dates
- The final priority and definitions are effective May 13, 2026.
- Docket
- Docket ID ED-2025-OS-0679
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 34 CFR 75
- Pages
- 7
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