McMahon Delivers 'Next 250' Workforce Remarks at the College of Southern Nevada, Oct. 22, 2026
October 22, 2026 · U.S. Department of Education · 0:18:53
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What happened
Education Secretary Linda McMahon delivered remarks at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, in the Department of Education’s upload of the October 22, 2026 address, part of her “Next 250” speaking series. According to the department’s description of the remarks, McMahon highlighted the administration’s work expanding career pathways and strengthening America’s workforce, and discussed Workforce Pell, Registered Apprenticeships, skilled trades, and affordable training opportunities that prepare Americans for in-demand, high-paying careers, as the department framed the agenda.
The department’s description states the address’s premise directly: a four-year degree is not the only path to the American Dream, and expanding access to hands-on training and career-focused education can help more workers build successful futures. The department published the Secretary’s remarks as prepared for delivery alongside the upload.
Why it matters
The Las Vegas address is McMahon’s workforce case in her own department’s framing: the Education Department she leads — an agency the administration is winding down as a federal operation — presenting career and technical pathways, apprenticeships, and Workforce Pell as first-class routes alongside college.
Scoreboard watch
Scoreboard watch: the career-pathways agenda as the department described it on October 22, 2026 — Workforce Pell, Registered Apprenticeships, and skilled-trades training expansion. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.
Sources: U.S. Department of Education, “The Next 250: Building the Golden Age of the American Workforce” (official upload, embedded above; description and the Secretary’s prepared remarks as published by the department).
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