Proposed Priority and Definitions-Secretary's Supplemental Priority and Definitions on Career Pathways and Workforce Readiness

Document 2025-18639 is a Proposed Rule published by the Department of Education in the Federal Register on September 25, 2025. The Secretary proposes one additional priority and related 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 (90 FR 43514), the Secretary's Supplemental Priority on Artificial Intelligence published as a proposed priority on July 21, 2025 (90 FR 34203), and the Secretary's Supplemental Priority on Promoting Patriotic Education published as a proposed priority on September 17, 2025 (90 FR 44788). In addition, this priority complements the additional Secretary's Supplemental Priority and Definitions on Meaningful Learning Opportunities published as a proposed priority elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/25/2025-18639/proposed-priority-and-definitions-secretarys-supplemental-priority-and-definitions-on-career.

No. Document 2025-18639 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.