{"id":2204436,"date":"2024-03-22T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-target-education-department-for-financial-aid-delays-as-cardona-shifts-blame\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:51:09","slug":"republicans-target-education-department-for-financial-aid-delays-as-cardona-shifts-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-target-education-department-for-financial-aid-delays-as-cardona-shifts-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans focus on Education Department for financial aid delays while Cardona shifts responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-target-education-department-for-financial-aid-delays-as-cardona-shifts-blame%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2204436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Republicans Target Education Department\u200d Over Financial Aid \u2063Delays<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Department of Education has become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/piers-morgan-rips-insufferable-woke-brats-upset-over-snow-white-consensual-kiss-controversy\/\" title=\"Piers Morgan Rips \u2018Insufferable Woke Brats\u2019 Upset Over \u2018Snow White\u2019 Consensual Kiss Controversy\">latest target<\/a> \u200bof the Republican\u200c Party\u2019s\u2063 ire after Secretary Miguel \u2064Cardona blamed colleges for the delay \u200bin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cassidy-and-foxx-call-for-investigation-into-bidens-botched-student-aid-rollout\/\" title=\"Cassidy and Foxx demand probe into Biden's flawed student aid launch\">financial aid offers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cardona claimed some \u2063colleges\u200c and \u200duniversities were not\u2062 ready to receive the \u201cinstitutional \u200bstudent information records\u201d that are necessary to give students financial aid offers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on some of \u200bthe requests we received from\u2064 schools earlier this week, we believe some schools are still not \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-h-representatives-hold-drive-in-legislative-session\/\" title=\"N.H. Representatives hold drive-in legislative session\">fully prepared<\/a> to receive ISIRs,\u201d Cardona said \u200bin a letter last \u2062week. \u201cIt\u2019s\u200c critical that your team is ready to receive student records and \u200bcan begin\u2062 putting together student\u200c aid\u200c packages as efficiently as possible.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Republican Criticism and Departmental Response<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. Bill Cassidy criticized the Education Department for\u2064 delays, calling for accountability.<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Virginia Foxx placed blame solely on\u2064 the Department of \u200dEducation for the delays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The delay\u200d in the FAFSA\u2063 revamp rollout has impacted over \u200d6 million college applications, contrary to its \u200cpurpose. While ISIRs\u2063 have\u2063 started reaching colleges, the processing rate\u2064 remains slow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Education\u2064 Department<\/strong> emphasized \u200btheir commitment\u200c to \u2062aiding students efficiently,\u200c promising to support colleges\u200b in dispersing aid promptly.<\/p>\n<p>The prolonged delay might necessitate\u2064 colleges to extend commitment deadlines until mid-April, affecting students\u2019 decision-making\u2062 time frame.<\/p>\n<p>Many U.S. colleges \u200dhave already postponed deadlines\u2064 due to \u2063the ongoing delays, with more expected to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Stay \u200dinformed with \u2062the \u200b <a href=\"#\">latest updates from \u200dThe Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party is directing criticism towards the Education Department as Secretary Miguel Cardona attributes financial aid delays to colleges. Cardona suggested that certain institutions were unprepared to receive essential student information records required for issuing aid offers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2643,"featured_media":2204437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24010791526615-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24010791526615-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}