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Saving More in a 401(k) Can Now Boost Your College Financial Aid
29Oct By adminNo Comments
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Saving More in a 401(k) Can Now Boost Your College Financial Aid

Faced with the gargantuan cost of higher education, Americans often have to choose between securing their children’s future or their own. A new rule change makes it slightly easier to do both.Pretax contributions made to retirement accounts will no longer count as income in the formula that measures a family’s ability to pay for college, under changes to this year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or Fafsa. The Education Department made the changes to simplify the form and ensure more aid goes to those who need it most. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Saving More in a 401(k) Can Now Boost Your College Financial Aid
29Oct By adminNo Comments
World

Saving More in a 401(k) Can Now Boost Your College Financial Aid

Faced with the gargantuan cost of higher education, Americans often have to choose between securing their children’s future or their own. A new rule change makes it slightly easier to do both.Pretax contributions made to retirement accounts will no longer count as income in the formula that measures a family’s ability to pay for college, under changes to this year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or Fafsa. The Education Department made the changes to simplify the form and ensure more aid goes to those who need it most. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden Has Canceled About $127 Billion of Student Loans Despite Supreme Court Ruling. Here’s How.
28Oct By adminNo Comments
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Biden Has Canceled About $127 Billion of Student Loans Despite Supreme Court Ruling. Here’s How.

Listen to article(2 minutes)More than three million borrowers have had $127 billion of their federal student loans flagged for cancellation, despite a Supreme Court ruling in June that blocked relief for millions more student-loan holders. The high court ruled that the Biden administration couldn’t cancel hundreds of billions of dollars for tens millions of student-loan holders, reasoning that the authority for such a broad-based policy doesn’t exist under the law. While that closed one path,  Biden tapped a variety of different tools that no previous president had ever used to this extent.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Scholastic Planned to Segregate Diverse Titles at School Book Fairs. Then Came the Backlash.
25Oct By adminNo Comments
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Scholastic Planned to Segregate Diverse Titles at School Book Fairs. Then Came the Backlash.

Updated Oct. 25, 2023 3:47 pm ETScholastic has reversed a decision to put certain books about gender and race into a separate collection that elementary schools can choose whether or not to offer during book fairs, after the publisher faced criticism that the move helped facilitate censorship.The company on Wednesday said the new collection—which it had created out of concern for its book-fair hosts after some U.S. states put restrictions in place about what kinds of books could be made available in schools—would be discontinued starting in January.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is an Oklahoma Story, but Educators There Might Not Teach It
21Oct By adminNo Comments
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is an Oklahoma Story, but Educators There Might Not Teach It

Three years ago, Oklahoma teacher Debra Thoreson requested copies of a book about the century-old murders of Osage people that took place about an hour from where her school is now. But she changed her plan to assign the book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI,” to her high school English students after passage of a state law that she feared could endanger her license and her school’s accreditation.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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