Overview

• Education and Labor launched an integrated state plan portal to manage Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act programs under a single platform.
• Education said it will transfer program funds, detail staff to Labor, and co-administer affected programs during the transition.
• Adult education and Perkins career and technical education grantees will begin using Labor’s Payment Management System for aligned grants and payments.
• The shift elevates Labor’s role over the $1.4 billion Perkins program and adult education and family literacy initiatives historically run by Education.
• A Massachusetts judge previously issued a preliminary injunction and reinstated over 1,300 Education staff, but the Supreme Court later temporarily paused that order, allowing implementation to proceed.