WIOA-Funded AI Literacy, Designed to the DOL Framework
TEN 07-25 is addressed directly to state and local workforce board chairs and directors. It delivers the design framework for AI literacy programming, while TEGL 03-25 (August 2025) encourages boards to fund that programming with WIOA Title I and governor's reserve funds. Boards now have both the money signal and the content standard.
Last verified against the DOL source: August 20, 2026. What changed
What TEN 07-25 says to you
Boards are named in the TEN's address block and inside the framework's agency guidance: integrate AI literacy into "existing workshops, orientations, or career navigation services"; equip staff to "discuss AI tools with customers"; align content with regional industry needs through employer and provider partnerships; and connect literacy to "re-employment, upskilling, and talent matching." The framework's audience section for workers maps cleanly onto your customer flow: job seekers who can demonstrate AI literacy are more placeable, and employers increasingly ask for it.
What it means for you
This is the smallest complete market in the AI literacy landscape, roughly 570 local boards, and the federal government just handed it a funded mandate-shaped opportunity. The practical gaps: staff AI literacy (Principle 6, your career counselors and AJC staff are the enabling layer), procurement language (the 12 provisions drop directly into RFPs as scored criteria), and provider selection (demand the 60-checkpoint mapping from any vendor; the Checker operationalizes it).
Your first five moves
(1) brief the board on the TEGL 03-25 → TEN 07-25 sequence (money, then standard); (2) train AJC staff and career counselors before any customer-facing rollout; (3) add AI literacy modules to existing workshops and orientations; (4) write the 12 provisions into your next training procurement; (5) partner with employers to define the region's role-specific proficiency expectations beyond baseline literacy.
The provisions that matter most to you
How GAGE serves you
Board and agency licensing: staff enablement first, because career counselors are the enabling layer the framework describes, then customer-facing seats. Team seats run $89, $69 and $49 a seat by volume, from 10 seats, with completion and evidence reporting you can export.
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Is there WIOA funding for this?
TEGL 03-25 encourages exactly this use of WIOA Title I youth/adult/dislocated-worker funds and governor's reserve monies; TEN 07-25 supplies the program-design framework those dollars should follow.
What should we require from training vendors?
A provision-level mapping to the 5 content areas and 7 delivery principles, an update mechanism (Principle 7), staff-training tracks (Principle 6), and accessibility for customers with limited digital readiness (Principle 4).
Score what you have against the framework
Sixty checkpoints, twelve provisions, about twelve minutes, and a dated report you can put in front of whoever asks. Free, and the answers never leave your browser unless you ask for the report by email.
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education) is a private education company, not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Labor. DOL does not certify or endorse training programs. Framework summaries are drawn from the public TEN 07-25 document. Read TEN 07-25 on dol.gov. Last verified: August 20, 2026.
Last verified against the DOL source: August 20, 2026. What changed