👀 I’m Just a Bill — FAFSA Simplification + College Affordability

A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster

What is this bill?

A bundle of education-related provisions in the 119th Congress addressing the federal student aid application process (FAFSA), college cost-of-attendance, and income-driven student loan repayment.

What does it actually do?

• FAFSA: Reduces the number of questions families must answer; simplifies need-determination formula.
• Pell Grant: Provisions for maximum Pell Grant amount and eligibility expansion (especially for incarcerated students).
• Income-Driven Repayment (IDR): Modifications to repayment plan structure and forgiveness eligibility.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF): Eligibility clarifications for cooperative-class workers and certain nonprofit employees.
• Cost-of-attendance transparency: Standardized financial aid award letters across institutions.

Who votes when?

• House and Senate Education Committees: Active markup
• Floor consideration: Pending
• President: Signature expected after passage

How does this affect cooperative-class families?

Directly composes with two cooperative-education initiatives:

• #12 Harper Guild (Brené Brown Harper Prime + LB-CCL Learner-Benefit Cooperative Commons License) — federal student aid policy is the structural baseline against which cooperative-credentialing alternatives operate.
• #14 Didasko (Sal Khan Chancellor + Harvard UDN institutional DRAFT) — MOOC-scale cooperative education is structurally complementary to traditional degree-granting institutions affected by these provisions.

The cooperative is building the structural alternative — but federal student aid policy still affects the millions of members who are or will be in the traditional federal-aid system.

Shirley Temple Truth Score

🟡 Provisional — Council vote pending.

Help Each Other Help Ourselves.