May 26, 2000
Lawmakers Reconsider Policy Requiring Dropouts to Refund Federal Student Aid
As colleges prepare to carry out a new federal policy that forces dropouts to repay their student aid, government officials are having second thoughts about the requirement, in light of evidence that it will force low-income students to return thousands of dollars in grant funds and make it harder for them to re-enroll in college.
Education Department officials, who supported the requirement as recently as November, when they published rules to enforce it, said last week that Congress
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