The Workforce Pell Clock

Semantic Insight · Research · Workforce Pell · Live dashboard

Congress opened Workforce Pell on July 1, 2026. States certify programs; each college files with the U.S. Department of Education; ED approves. This page draws the whole pipeline from the public record and redraws itself whenever the record changes. Nothing on it is typed by hand.

Verified current 2026-09-24 · approvals list last changed 2026-09-23 · rendered live from the national record

Federally approved

State-certified, awaiting ED

Named programs, all stages

States with named programs

North Carolina · certified, waiting on ED

How to read this. Every number and date above is computed from the tracker API at page load. Gold is state-certified and waiting on ED; green is federally approved. A program with no public date for a stage is counted in the totals but cannot be placed on the clock, and the captions say how many. State certification does not make funds usable — only federal approval does. Where a state publishes nothing, this page shows nothing: absence is stated with a date, never assumed. Per-program sourcing lives on the approvals tracker; the state-by-state narrative on The Race to Free Career Education; institutions on The Institutional Field.

Federal count: 12 federally approved in the record.

Cite: Semantic Insight, The Workforce Pell Clock, semanticinsight.tech/workforce-pell-dashboard.html (accessed ; data as of 2026-09-23). Data: /api/v1/workforce-pell-approvals, CC BY 4.0 with attribution.