Congress May Permit Aid Talks to Continue

The Senate has passed legislation that would allow a select group of private colleges to discuss their financial-aid policies with one another for seven more years.

The legislation, which the Senate approved unanimously in October, would provide an exemption to a law barring such discussions for financial-aid administrators at private colleges that are "need blind" (meaning that they do not consider a family's ability to pay in making admissions decisions). Those officials would

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