• Thursday, November 26, 2009
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Episode 17: Student Lenders Push for a Last-Ditch Compromise

Last week 32 student-loan groups circulated a counterproposal to President Obama's plan to end bank-based student lending. But with Congress poised to take up student-loan legislation in the coming days, the lenders' time might be running out, say Kelly Field and Sara Hebel. (2:10)

Kelly Field, The Chronicle's chief Washington reporter, and Sara Hebel, our politics editor, spend a minute (or so) each week discussing the key higher-education debates and behind-the-scenes maneuvering taking place in the nation's capital.

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