The botched rollout of the brand new Free Software for Federal Scholar Support disproportionately affected low-income Black and Latino college students, based on a brand new report from the Century Basis. As of Might, practically 300,000 fewer highschool seniors had crammed out the FAFSA this yr than in 2023, the report discovered. However communities with…
This yr’s rollout of the Free Software for Federal Scholar Help was, by virtually all accounts, a fiasco. What was imagined to be a less complicated kind made the method extra difficult for a lot of. The brand new kind was riddled with technical glitches and calculation errors, and delays left college students and schools…
The bungled rollout of this yr’s new Free Software for Federal Scholar Support began with a two-month delay, pushing the same old Oct. 1 launch date to the tip of December—a shift that raised eyebrows throughout larger ed and portended the disastrous monetary support cycle that adopted. So when U.S. training secretary Miguel Cardona appeared at…
The Pell Grant program is anticipated to run a $11.4 billion surplus for the fiscal yr, the Congressional Finances Workplace (CBO) stated this week, averting fears of a possible shortfall that might have led to cuts in this system. The Biden administration had requested a further $2.1 billion for fiscal yr 2025 to extend the utmost Pell…
The U.S. Division of Schooling won’t be opening subsequent yr’s Free Utility for Federal Pupil Assist (FASFA) to public remark or making substantive modifications to this previous cycle’s type. “To make sure a clean consumer expertise throughout the upcoming FAFSA cycle, the 2025–26 FAFSA type will stay in line with the 2024–25 type,” division officers…
The Training Division has tapped Faculty Board president Jeremy Singer to serve in a brand new function overseeing the rollout of subsequent 12 months’s Free Software for Federal Pupil Help. The information, offered first to Inside Greater Ed, comes as greater schooling teams have grown more and more involved that the company gained’t launch a…