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Kennedy to Colleges: Have Back-Up Plan for Students
21 April 08 05:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In a letter sent to the American Council on Education on April 15, Sen. Edward Kennedy , D-Mass., the chairman of the Senate Education Committee, urged colleges to sign up for the Department of Education’s Federal Direct Loan Program as a preventive measure Read More...

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Lose Your Right to Choose: Kennedy Rallies Support for STAR Act
22 February 07 10:39 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

On Feb. 16, 2007 the “first higher education hearing of the 110th Congress” took place before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, according to a Feb. 19, 2007 article titled “Scattered Thoughts on Student Aid” by Doug Lederman Read More...

Filed under: Federal Direct Loan Program, NextStudent, Sen. Edward Kennedy, STAR Act, Student Aid