Ten Key Questions for Reauthorization
according to John Dean, Principal, Washington Partners, LLC:

1. Are college costs out of control?
   
   
2. Does the availability of federal student aid facilitate schools raising tuition and fees?
   
   
3. Why don’t more students go to college?
   
   
4. Are current federal aid programs rational in terms of allocating scare federal resources to produce the best outcomes – more students going to college and graduating?
   
   
5. Is student loan debt excessive for a significant number of student-borrowers?
   
   
6. Is the consolidation loan program needed by most borrowers who use it?
   
   
7. Is unbridled competition in the FFEL program good for schools?
   
   
8. Is the FFEL industry getting too concentrated for its own good?
   
   
9. Why is the FFEL program so complicated and does it need to be that complicated?
   
   
10. Who should get the profits from student loans?

Adapted from comments made in early March 2004.