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Trades Navigator republishes public government records and adds plain-language explanations sourced to those records. We are not a rating agency and do not compute our own composite scores for schools or programs.

Publication of a public record is not an endorsement or a judgment. Publication of no records for a given school is not an implied endorsement either — many small legitimate schools simply do not appear in the datasets we check.

Any specific decisions about enrollment, licensing, business formation, insurance, or financial commitments should be made after consulting the relevant state licensing board, a lawyer, an accountant, or other qualified professional.

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Trades Navigator publishes no sponsored content, accepts no affiliate commissions, takes no referral fees from schools, JATCs, contractors, insurers, or software vendors, and pays no party for placement.

We are not a rating agency, not a ranking service, and not an accreditor. We republish what state licensing boards, the U.S. Department of Education, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and CareerOneStop publish, and we link every value to its source. Adverse-signal banners on school records appear because the federal record says so — not because we have judged the school.

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