Manno for Work Shift: Workforce Pell’s Stress Test: Can Faster Creden…

Workforce Pell isn’t just a multiyear, bipartisan effort that’s now a policy footnote in President Trump’s sprawling domestic policy bill. It’s a national stress test. And at bottom, it’s a debate about two scarce commodities in federal policy: time and trust.

For decades, federal student aid has been organized around the rhythms of higher education: 15-week semesters, credit…