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"A significant minority of high school seniors who wouldn't be able to afford college without financial help can't get their parents to sign the FAFSA," KPPC reports. NASFAA President Justin Draeger is quoted in the article.

"Four plaintiffs who attended Corinthian Colleges programs are suing Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education in U.S. district court over a plan to award partial relief of student loan debt to borrowers defrauded or misled by their institutions," Inside Higher Ed reports.

"Filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, is one of the most important steps students and their families can take to pay for college," according to U.S. News & World Report. Fomer NASFAA board member Brad Barnett is quoted answering questions related to filling out the FAFSA. 

"The Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard University, a legal services clinic, has asked a federal judge to stop Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Education Department from using earnings data to grant only partial student loan forgiveness to defrauded borrowers," according to The Washington Post. 

"Denise Sparks graduated from college in 1995 with $30,000 in debt. Then her life turned challenging. First, there was the divorce from her husband, which left her to raise two children on her own. Then she fell ill and had multiple operations...She often missed work and didn't have enough money to send in her student loan payments. Today her debt, with interest, penalties and fees, is more than $230,000," CNBC reports.

"Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made clear even before taking office last year that she was more interested in protecting the companies that are paid by the government to collect federal student loan payments than in helping borrowers who have been driven into financial ruin by those same companies," the editorial board at The New York Times writes in an opinion article.  

"While 'free community college for all' programs promise to increase the number of college graduates for relatively little cost, national data reveal it to be a poor strategy," Jennifer E. Walsh writes in an opinion article for National Review. 

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