👀 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.