FAFSA rollout delays highlight WA barriers to higher education

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FAFSA rollout delays highlight WA barriers to higher education

This year it took college sophomore Athaliah P.S. Ioane 20 minutes to fill out the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). In her senior year of high school, it took her three months. A first-generation college student at Whitworth University in Spokane, Ioane remembers how difficult it was to fill out the FAFSA for the first time.   “I honestly couldn’t find that one high school counselor or teacher who would stop discouraging me from…