With the deadline for local scholarships approaching next week, it is still uncertain what dismantling the Department of ...

Families and students are growing nervous about the fate of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) amid ...

Student aid officials in California say there’s been a nearly 9% increase in high school students completing applications for ...

Paying attention to school communications and getting your finances organized are among key ways to start strong.

But remaining Office of Federal Student Aid staff, college-access advocates ... “They’ve made cuts to things that are important to us, like the [FAFSA help] call center or training for [financial aid] ...

The idea would be for AI chatbots to take over call centers that field thousands of questions a day, including from families and students about FAFSA. Advocates say it is important for students ...

But internal agency documents, court filings and interviews with college officials show that the scale of massive staffing cuts to the agency’s most important ... Student Aid, or FAFSA, depend ...

The Department of Education oversees federal student loans held by nearly 43 million people, or one in six American adults.

Students have until June 30 to apply ... The policy “communicated how important the FAFSA is for families that may not have already understood its value,” said Peter Granville, a higher ...