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Textbook bad vibes.

May 28, 2026

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11 min read

Textbook bad vibes.

Plus, the Acting Labor Secretary gets grilled on the Hill, and the apprenticeship wars to come.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

Interviews

Apprenticeship, money, and scale, with Achieve Partners' Ryan Craig.

May 26, 2026

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8 min read

Apprenticeship, money, and scale, with Achieve Partners' Ryan Craig.

Debating the consumer-protection side of apprenticeship and creating more choices than 'College or Chipotle?'

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
$5.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including big, new money for colleges and transportation jobs.
LockSimple

May 22, 2026

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12 min read

$5.5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including big, new money for colleges and transportation jobs.

Plus, new private funding.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

THE MONEY

A week of big hints for what’s needed in American workforce policy.

May 22, 2026

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10 min read

A week of big hints for what’s needed in American workforce policy.

An interesting new business report on apprenticeship, the Final Pell-ening, and trying to broaden Republicans' workforce horizons.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

Best of.

Still workin': The skills-versus-education debate that misses what we're missing.

May 19, 2026

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6 min read

Still workin': The skills-versus-education debate that misses what we're missing.

Why are we choosing?

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

Grant listings.

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$5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new AI and teacher apprenticeship dollars.
LockSimple

May 15, 2026

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10 min read

$5 billion in ed and workforce grants listings, including new AI and teacher apprenticeship dollars.

Plus, new manufacturing money and state grants.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

THE MONEY

$25 million toward the chicken-or-egg problem in AI jobs training.

May 14, 2026

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9 min read

$25 million toward the chicken-or-egg problem in AI jobs training.

Also: apprenticeship in Education funding and whether that means anything, and new Ed-DOL merger developments.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
The advantage college still has over many workforce programs.

May 12, 2026

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5 min read

The advantage college still has over many workforce programs.

Predictability, and how public money doesn't help.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

Grant listings.

$4.9 billion in workforce grants listings, including new career exploration money from Ed.
LockSimple

May 8, 2026

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10 min read

$4.9 billion in workforce grants listings, including new career exploration money from Ed.

Plus, funding for teacher quality, mentorship for foreign-born talent, and workforce development in energy-transition communities.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle

THE MONEY

More silly money theatre? And the detail we're missing on Workforce Pell.

May 8, 2026

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6 min read

More silly money theatre? And the detail we're missing on Workforce Pell.

Plus, possible signs of stability at DOL and more on that numbers game in apprenticeship.

Nick Beadle
Nick Beadle
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