President Obama… wants colleges and universities that depend on federal aid to disclose exactly what their tuition and fees cover, how many low-income students a school admits, graduation rates, how much debt students graduate with and whether they find good-paying jobs after graduation. Based on this information, the U.S. Department of Education would then rate schools. The higher a school’s rating, the more federal aid a student at that school would receive. Students at poorly rated schools would get less… The problem is that many of the things the administration wants to measure are hard to measure… The president says his proposal should appeal to both Democrats and Republicans, but already Republican leaders sound skeptical.

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by Claudio Sanchez, NPR.

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