Transparency and directives on educational requirements for Federal public sector jobs

To improve transparency and directives related to educational requirements for positions in executive agencies, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall— (1) prohibit the head of an executive agency from requiring a minimum educational attainment as qualification for a position as an employee of the executive agency, unless the Director of the Office of Personnel Management determines that such educational attainment is necessary for the position based on specified skills required for the position that can only be obtained through a certain degree; (2) prescribe regulations for hiring of employees by executive agencies regarding alternative qualifications to educational attainment that would meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities requirements for a position; (3) review the addition of educational requirements for employees during audits of hiring actions within executive agencies; and (4) establish a hiring path dedicated to positions for which STAR workers are eligible to apply within usajobs.gov, or any successor website, and direct executive agencies to identify job postings that are within that hiring path, so that STAR workers may search for positions based on this criterion.