CSAC launches its Workforce Pell Grant application portal for institutions tomorrow, October 21. If your school has no data-sharing agreement with the Employment Development Department, you owe CSAC and the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data a letter of interest by December 15, naming your programs, your target high-demand sectors, and average class sizes. California's 2026-27 eligibility list runs 571 occupations, per the state-by-state tracker that surfaced this. Fifty-six days. The biggest market in the country. If you run a school in California, the next two months decide whether your students can use federal money in 2027. If you don't, watch how California does it, because your state is drafting its version right now.