Education Department sparks new GOP anger as Cardona pivots on financial aid blunder

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has said some schools were “still not fully prepared to receive” key financial aid data from his agency but the Education Department hasn’t sent most of it.

The department started distributing Institutional Student Information Records, the electronic records of financial aid data to schools, last week. So far, only about a quarter of the millions of outstanding FAFSAs have been processed and that doesn’t include the paper forms submitted by families who struggled with the online application when the new, buggy system launched.

Cardona acknowledged how tough the work of these administrators has been, but also told them on the call that “there are some issues that maybe could have been addressed much earlier.”“We are not here to point the finger directly at anyone — but definitely not at our institutions,” said Emmanual Guillory, senior director of government relations at the American Council on Education, which represents more than 1,700 colleges and universities.

“I am sure the secretary is doing the best he can and we ought to be doing the best we can in Congress,” she said in an interview.

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