Morning Jolt: The Education Version of the Healthcare.gov Debacle

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

May 01 2024

The Education Version of the Healthcare.gov Debacle

On the menu today: May 1 is traditionally college-decision day, the date that applicants to college must decide which school they will attend. But across the country, hundreds of thousands of high-school seniors who have been accepted to colleges can't decide, or make an informed decision, because they don't really know whether they can afford to attend. The newly "overhauled" U.S. Department of Education system that administers financial aid and certain scholarships and grants is still dysfunctional. It's one of the biggest and most far-reaching Biden administration screw-ups (among a wide-ranging plethora of options), and yet unless you know a promising but frustrated high-school senior, you've probably heard very little about this mess. Read on.

FAFSA Disaster

God help you if you have a high-school senior applying to colleges this year. Entirely separate from the flourishing antisemitism, extremism, and angry mobs on campus, the federal government has created another massive headache and obstacle for families by attempting to overhaul a key computer system that runs financial-aid programs and completely botching the task. This is ...

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