March 22, 2002

Bush Administration Supports Direct Lending, at Least for Now

By STEPHEN BURD

A Bush-administration official said this month that the White House had no plans to dismantle the direct-student-loan program. However, that official -- Jeffrey Andrade, a higher-education adviser at the Education Department -- said he could not guarantee that the administration would continue to support the program when the law that authorizes it expires next year.

During a session at an Education Department meeting here on student aid, Mr. Andrade told college aid

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