House Democrats Release Higher Education Act Reauthorization Legislation

Abstract:

House Education Committee Chairman George Miller (D-CA) and Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Competitiveness Subcommittee Chair Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) released the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (H.R. 4137) Friday afternoon to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA). This article contains an initial summary of the bill. The introduction of the House HEA bill is a significant step towards HEA Reauthorization this year, but there is still a ways to go, and it is likely that the bill will be changed before the process is completed.

The full article was originally published in NASFAA’s Today’s News on 9/13/07.