The Department of Education announced Monday it is reversing a “misguided” Biden administration policy requiring “burdensome and unnecessary reporting” practices for technical schools.
The Biden-era policy released in December of 2024 placed additional reporting requirements on career and technical education programs which “would have piled on thousands of hours in additional reporting compliance requirements on states, high schools, and community colleges that can be better spent on equipping the American workforce with the skills necessary to rebuild our economy,” the department’s press release said.
Technical schools argued the new rule “would be massively disruptive and result in significant state and local administrative burdens, disincentivize innovation, weaken alignment with other federal laws governing education and workforce systems” and “reduce data quality.”
“The Trump Education Department is committed to strengthening our career and technical workforce and equipping students with the tools they need to excel,” Acting Under Secretary James Bergeron said in the announcement.
“The 11th hour Biden-Harris information collection on CTE programs was unnecessary bureaucratic red tape that would only drive up costs and hinder innovation. […]
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