This model legislation provides a structured framework for standardizing financial-aid offers, ensuring that they are transparent, accurate, and accessible to students and families. It is intended for use by state … Continue reading “Model Legislation: Financial Aid Transparency”
While our country’s approach to all student lending needs a radical overhaul, there is one category of lending that sticks out as especially broken: graduate-student loans. Since the turn of … Continue reading “Reform Graduate Lending”
Student loan debt has received more attention lately, but one aspect has been left out of the debate: parents taking on loans for their children. While undergraduate students generally can … Continue reading “To Fight Student Loan Debt, North Carolina Schools Need to Stop Pushing Parent PLUS Loans”
Congressional Democrats are reintroducing the Debt-Free College Act in an attempt to lower costs and increase federal intervention in higher education. This debt-free proposal would require the federal government to … Continue reading “DC Wants to Further Subsidize Higher Education: Here’s Why That’s a Bad Idea”
Parent PLUS is not typically the loan program making headlines when student loans are in the news. But over the past several years, it has become a central part of … Continue reading “Parents, Student Loans, and Government: An Unhealthy Mix”
Student loan debt remains a burden for millions of college graduates and dropouts, but the federal government has not yet hit the brakes on its loan engine. Now, it’s becoming … Continue reading “PLUS Loans: Subtraction by Addition?”