September 26, 2003

Distance-Education Rule Should Be Eased, Education Department Says

By DAN CARNEVALE

Congress should ease a student-aid regulation that limits the growth of distance-education programs, the Department of Education says.

A report released by the department says a project called the Distance Education Demonstration Program has shown that waiving financial-aid restrictions on distance-education providers did not lead to any problems among the 107 institutions chosen to participate in the study. The rules, approved in the 1990s, were designed to prevent fraudulent

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