The Chronicle of Higher Education

Education Department Expands Student-Aid Program for Distance Education

By DAN CARNEVALE

Washington

The Department of Education has added five institutions to a program that waives a key rule so that distance-education providers can offer students federal financial aid.

Called the Distance Education Demonstration Program, it allows participating institutions to bypass a legal requirement known as the...

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