Education Department releases draft amendatory text, says three negotiator data requests cannot be validated in time
Federal negotiator Dave Musser presented the Department's draft amendatory text and said staff could not validate three negotiator data requests in time (written‑arrangement counts, gainful employment earnings, and Pell recipients with prior bachelor's degrees); the Department asked for an hour to finish drafting and circulated hard copies for review.
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Federal negotiator Dave Musser told negotiators the U.S. Department of Education had finalized a set of amendatory texts but could not validate three requested datasets in time for discussion. "We have fulfilled one of the data requests on institutions offering short term programs that qualify only for direct loan funds," Musser said, and added, "we won't be able to fulfill the other data requests" because the Department could not pull and validate those data quickly enough.
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