Loan Guarantors May Ask Students to Pay More

Higher-education lobbyists vow to fight efforts to require a 1-percent fee

By STEPHEN BURD

Washington

The agencies that guarantee federal student loans are in a bind and looking to borrowers to bail them out.

Lobbyists for the country's 36 guarantors are considering whether to ask Congress to require students to pay the agencies a fee to get...

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