Department of Education(ED)

FAFSA and loan-servicing digital service reliability, shared school data standards, privacy-preserving longitudinal evidence, and risk-based grant monitoring.

Students and families experience administrative burden directly through financial-aid forms, verification, servicing errors, and appeals.

Overlap with Labor, HHS, and Treasury is expected in workforce and tax-linked education benefits; common outcome definitions can reduce confusion.

Do not use simplification to weaken disability, civil-rights, or privacy protections; do not automate aid determinations without explainability and appeal.

Make Education smaller where it duplicates paperwork and stronger where it protects access: a reliable student-aid platform, lighter grant reporting, sharper civil-rights enforcement, and evidence standards for new programs.