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The barrage of dueling entreaties and warnings about the future of the federal student loans continued Tuesday, as four leading Congressional Republicans told college presidents in a letter that "the ...
Keep Student Loan Choice/ Protect Local Jobs "We should get the federal government out of the college loan business altogether."- Geroge C. Leef
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Subsidized loans for college students is just as bad a policy as subsidized loans for home ownership.
Kathleen This is very important!
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Big News!
Investigation of Charge of Education Dept. Politicization
The acting inspector general of the U.S. Education Department said in a letter Monday that her office would investigate Republican charges
that senior department officials inappropriately encouraged college
officials to support the proposed elimination of the Federal Family
Education Loan Program
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WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE: PUBLIC OPTION CAMPUS REVOLT
Ted Malone of the University of Alaska said that the department had already "created an impossible-to-administer program" for Pell Grants and therefore said it's "hard to trust that you're going to be looking out for our best interests" when forcing all colleges i...nto the government-run lending system.
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The Wall Street Journal writes that colleges are largely against government control of student loans.
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NASDAQ News: Alternate Senate Student Loan Plan Would Retain Role For Banks
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"In Vermont, our students rely heavily on VSAC, a leader in the FFEL market in our state. We have only one school currently using Direct Lending, the rest of us will need to mobilize to inform our
students, update our software and educate our campus administrators. There is simply not enough
time to accomplish all of the...se things in the face of awarding our new classes, which begins in the
next two months.
A one-year extension of the ECASLA, and the programs the Department has implemented under that
legislation, will give the Congress time to complete its deliberations on student loan reform and will
assure that there are no student loan access disruptions next year."- Vermont Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
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71 Schools and Financial Aid Groups Speak Out to Support ECASLA!
"If you choose to support the Senate version of H.R. 3221 and move forward with full conversion to FDSLP but allow for the delayed implementation date, we implore you to support S. 2796 to extend the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (ECASLA).... ECASLA has assured that students have been able to obtain the loan(s) necessary to ensure their educational goals and
dreams. This action will ensure that every educational loan borrower will be able to continue to
secure the respective loan with no interrupted service."- Tennessee Association of Financial Aid Administrators
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81,437 sign Sallie Mae petition to protect jobs! http://www.nasfaa.org/publications/2009/
Keep Student Loan Choice/ Protect Local Jobs Rep. Kline and Sen. Enzi Lead Bipartisan Effort to Protect Student Loans!
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Yale University Weighs in on Student Loan Legislation
Yale financial services director resists student loan changes, says House bill will mean lower quality, fewer benefits for students.
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While the University has resisted government urging to convert its private bank-based student loan system to one that is federally funded, legislation set to pass the Senate as early as next month may force Yale to comply.
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U.S. Senator Bob Bennett (Utah) speaks out against student loan legislation in The Salt Lake Tribune!
"The federal government has its hands in far too many pots these days. It has taken over U.S. automakers, sectors of the financial industry, and now, along with health care, the Obama administration would like to take over student loans."
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Student loans: Not another D.C.-run plan
Keep Student Loan Choice/ Protect Local Jobs 2,300 jobs at stake in Indiana? Not on our watch.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- A plan by the federal government to take student loan origination away from Sallie Mae has produced a petition drive from the company's Fishers employees to save their jobs. Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
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Veterans put their lives on the line, but now they are stuck waiting in line. Bureaucratic delays are holding up the GI Bill education benefits our veterans were promised. A government program is having trouble delivering higher education dollars to 30,000 veterans. ...
