The Spellings Plan For Simplification (Inside Higher Ed)
"Margaret Spellings and her staff clearly haven't started packing up their offices just yet," Inside Higher Ed reports. "In a speech tonight at Harvard University, the U.S. education secretary will unveil a proposal to greatly simplify the process by which students apply for federal financial aid. Under the plan, which flows from a set of ideas floated by Under Secretary Sara Martinez Tucker at an Education Department summit in July, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid would shrink from more than 100 questions now to 26, and students would find out, before their senior year of college, how much federal financial aid they would qualify for."
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