SLU sues Department of Education over Pell Grant dispute

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS • St. Louis University is suing the U.S. Department of Education over a $2.8 million financial aid dispute that's been going on for more than a decade.

The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court here, centers around a 1998 audit that said the school gave too much Pell Grant money to students from 1994 to 1996.

The money was awarded through a process known as "professional judgment." That allows a school to override the federal financial aid process and award extra money to a student, based on unique needs or special circumstances.

The audit found that the school went too far in more than 120 instances during the two years that were studied. Since then, the $2.8 million claim has been debated, rejected, reinstated and ultimately upheld late last year by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

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I have a better idea. How about we judge them based on objectively valid scholastic principles.

And there is no reason to believe that there weren't standards in place.

We're going to be cleaning up after him for decades.