Lamar Alexander Wants to Simplify, Simplify, Simplify - Kelly Field, Inside HIgher Ed

As the presumptive chair of the Senate committee that oversees education, he would control the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, the major law governing student aid. Already, he’s drafted legislation to shrink the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or Fafsa, and to reduce the overall number of student-aid programs. He’s formed a commission to identify redundant regulations, and he's talked of "starting from scratch" on the reauthorization bill. "My principal goal in higher education is to deregulate it," the senator said in an email interview. http://chronicle.com/article/Lamar-Alexander-Wants-to/149807/