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Student Debt Alternative and CTE Awareness Act

Official title: A bill 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 acknowledgement.

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What This Bill Does

This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to disclose certain information related to career and technical education.

Specifically, the bill requires the Office of Federal Student Aid within ED to publish on its public website information on (1) career and technical education programs, including average completion time, program cost, and postgraduation employment rate; (2) opportunities in each state to pursue these programs and obtain Perkins funding; and (3) Workforce Pell Grants.

In addition, ED must include this information and a related acknowledgment signature box on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

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Timeline

  1. Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
  2. SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  3. Introduced
  4. Committee

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