Bobby Scott: “It is hard to imagine any effective dropout program that does not save more money than it costs.”

It’s difficult to articulate how impractical these proposals are, to say nothing of the pain and suffering they’ll inflict on students, educators and their communities, if they were to become law.

Student loan debt now exceeds $1.7 trillion. Borrowers need clear guidance and certainty.

Codifying this new system without assessing its effectiveness just doesn’t make any sense.

Instead, they’re forced to deal with uncertainty and chaos created by an administration that has systematically weakened the federal student aid system.