House Committee Approves Bill to Extend Higher Education Act

The education committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a sweeping piece of legislation that would set federal higher-education policy for the next six years.

The bill to renew the Higher Education Act was approved by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in late July on a party-line 27-to-20 vote, sending it to the floor of the House for a vote this fall. The leaders of a key Senate panel hope to unveil their version of the legislation in

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