December 17, 1999

Federal Panel Lambastes Education Department's Plan on Computer Modernization

By STEPHEN BURD

A panel that advises Congress on student-aid policy sent a letter to lawmakers late last month that contained a stinging critique of the Education Department's year-long effort to modernize the delivery of billions of dollars of federal financial aid to students and colleges.

In the letter, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, which wrote to all members of the House of Representatives and Senate committees that oversee the Education Department, said that it had

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