Education experts testified before the House on Wednesday about the continuing failures of the Biden administration’s botched rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
Reps. Burgess Owens (R-UT) and Frederica Wilson (D-FL) convened a hearing of the Higher Education and Workforce Development subcommittee titled “FAFSA Fail: Examining the Impact on Students, Families, and Schools” to discuss the chaos created by the Department of Education’s debacle.
“We are in an awful place today,” Justin Draeger, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, told the committee. “When you have a crisis of credibility issue, schools don’t trust that more errors won’t be found, that guidance won’t change tomorrow, or that the data they have is correct.”
After months of delays, the Department of Education only recently started sending financial aid data to schools,
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