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Esther J. Cepeda: The fear of federal college loans

CHICAGO — If you're not intimately familiar with the terrifying phrase "February is FAFSA time," you don't have college-age kids. Or you're wealthy enough to be unencumbered by the gut-wrenching process of filling out the dreaded Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the gateway to federal and state student grants, work-study and loans for college.

Larry Elder: Lemons may have picked their school

They call it the "dance of the lemons" or the "turkey trot." It's when a school district transfers bad teachers from school to school until the teacher ends up in a school where the parents are least likely to complain.

Maximize financial aid by filling out FAFSA

As of Jan. 1, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, became available for the 2012-13 school year. The FAFSA qualifies students for federal grants, loans and work-study jobs, and serves ...

7 places to find financial aid for adults

College websites and brochures may have the fresh faces of teens plastered all over them, but older, nontraditional students sometimes have the financial aid advantage.

Thursday is FAFSA night at Flora High School

Flora High School is hosting an event this Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. in the FHS computer lab, for students and parents to come in and fill out their Free Application For Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, forms. Assisting the students and parents with this will be Audra Clodfelter of the Illinois Student Aid Commission. "There are grants, scholarships, student loans, and work studies ...