September 30, 2005

Hurricane-Relief Bill Would Give Online Colleges a Break on Student Aid

By DAN CARNEVALE

A bill to provide education relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina would temporarily remove a controversial distance-education regulation, allowing some students attending virtual colleges to receive federal financial aid for the first time.

Embedded in the $3.7-billion education-relief bill (S 1715), which was introduced last week in the Senate, is a provision that would alter the definition of an institution of higher education to include online colleges. That change would overturn a

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