The Chronicle: Daily news: 09/22/2005 -- 02-Senate Panel Backs Away From Proposals to Recall Student Aid From Colleges Closed by Katrina

The Chronicle: Daily news: 09/22/2005 -- 02: "Senate Panel Backs Away From Proposals to Recall Student Aid From Colleges Closed by Katrina

By STEPHEN BURD

Leaders of the U.S. Senate's education committee are reconsidering a proposal that would require colleges temporarily closed by Hurricane Katrina to return federal student-aid dollars they have received this semester.

When higher-education lobbyists learned that hurricane-relief legislation under consideration by the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions contained provisions requiring the return of aid, they expressed shock and dismay. The lobbyists were especially surprised because the Bush admi"