House Subcommittee Approves Bill to Extend Higher Education Act

Panel deals a setback to for-profit colleges and a victory to privacy advocates

After more than two years of debate, a key subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on a party-line vote last week to extend the Higher Education Act for the next six years.

Lawmakers quickly disposed of some of the most contentious issues surrounding renewal of the law that governs most federal student-aid programs in a series of compromises before the bill was even

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