JUST IN 🚨: U.S. Department of Education provides updated timeline on student corrections and reprocessing of #FAFSA applicant records impacted by errors: ow.ly/KXrl50RbRqT #fachat

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happy eclipse day! i wrote an intro to this Updike poem about why we're all so obsessed with the moon

Biden releases new student loan debt relief plan for millions of borrowers npr.org/2024/04/08/124…

Sarabia's penalty the difference at the break.

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Rayan Ait-Nouri is magic

Breaking: The University of Texas at Austin has laid off an undetermined number of employees who used to work in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, according to a Tuesday email from President Jay Hartzell. bit.ly/3IZ4uTD

Winner of the National Magazine Award for Reviews & Criticism: Sophie Gilbert for three essays on desire, intimacy, and female power in pop culture: “The Death of the Sex Scene,” “Porn Set Women Up From the Start” and “Madonna Forever.” Read Sophie’s work: theatlantic.com/author/sophie-…

This week’s episode of The Amendment is a conversation with Stacey Abrams, who is using her political imagination to counter the culture war narrative around DEI — which she frames as unfinished business in perfecting our democracy. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙️

I ❤️ journalism. Congratulations to my mega-talented, totally brilliant colleagues at The Atlantic.

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New: U.S. Department of Education shares more details about inconsistent tax info coming thru in some processed FAFSAs. tinyurl.com/3rfzb4sm

President Biden will visit Baltimore on Friday, Karine Jean-Pierre announced, where he will meet with local leaders and get on-the-ground look at response/ clean-up of the Key Bridge.

Alabama just intro'd a ban on interstate abortion travel for minors.

HB378 would make transporting or helping a minor get an abortion a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail. alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdfdocs/…

My inbox today: Emails from admins and profs at small, tuition-dependent colleges who are flat-out terrified that the #FAFSA fiasco will cause major enrollment shortfalls. “I’m feeling fragile,” one writes.

“even if schools change their deadlines and the department gets through its FAFSA backlog, that still leaves 2.6 million fewer students who have submitted applications compared with this time last year”

Read Rose Horowitch: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

After a failed FAFSA rollout, time is running out for an entire nation’s worth of high-school seniors to access financial aid. The effect on college attendance threatens to be worse than the coronavirus pandemic was. The Atlantic
Gift link here: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

.adam harris, Mark Leibovich, Nia-Malika Henderson, and Jeff Mason discuss the state of play in the presidential rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump with the moderator and editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg: theatlantic.com/national/archi…

TONIGHT: adam harris, Nia-Malika Henderson, Mark Leibovich and Jeff Mason join Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss the state of play in the presidential rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

Watch at 8/7c on PBS!

New: Two-thirds of colleges surveyed don’t think they can successfully process ISIRs “within a few weeks,” per this ACE letter to U.S. Department of Education that lays out numerous concerns re: #FAFSA . acenet.edu/Documents/Lett…