March 30, 2007
Congress and the Education Department Move to Simplify the Student-Aid Process
Congressional Democrats introduced legislation last week that would cut the basic federal student-aid application form in half by using financial information from income-tax returns.
The following day, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced the Bush administration's own idea for simplifying the financial-aid application process: a new online tool that will help students and their families plan for college by calculating a student's eligibility for federal student aid,
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