Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – When the U.S. Department of Education abruptly dismissed half its workforce earlier this year, college officials ...

Colleges continue to see disruptions in the federal-aid process months after major staff cuts at the U.S. Department of Education, and the impacts on students appear to be intensifying. Those findings ...

Note: The following are fictional examples created to illustrate typical patterns in financial aid distribution. Two UC Berkeley admits received their financial aid packages last spring. Student A, ...

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House Education and Workforce Committee Republicans have released their plan to overhaul the country's student loan and financial aid system. Pell Grant eligibility would come with new requirements, ...

“Maybe breaking these programs is not an unfortunate side effect that might happen. It’s actually the intended goal, to cause disruption.” That was Judith Scott-Clayton, a professor of economics and ...

State grants that thousands of students were counting on to pay for college were weeks behind schedule. The botched rollout of a new federal financial aid form had already caused serious delays. Then, ...

(The Conversation) – As an education researcher who has studied the economic returns of higher education, I know that college degrees remain cost-effective investments for most students. But college ...

State officials say it could take years for students to access Workforce Pell grants, with aid initially available only to students in a handful of carefully scrutinized programs.

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