Bobby Scott: “It must also take into account the racial disparities that plague our system and how young people, women, and other…”

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

The sweeping changes to the federal student loan system originating from that law are compounding the issues that have risen from the dismantling of the Education Department.

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.

The repeal represents the federal government walking away from that responsibility, which jeopardizes the hard-fought progress we have made.