Improving Postsecondary Education Data for Students Act

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Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this legislation.

I have a personal take on this. I have a 17-year-old son, Copeland, and my wife and I are in the process of guiding him through the difficult and often complex process of choosing a higher education institution to attend.

As families across America know, there are a lot of factors to consider when assessing what institution will provide my son with the best opportunity to graduate college and be set on a path to professionally succeed. In this economy, our children deserve the best possible chance we can give them to find jobs that will allow them to provide for themselves and their future families.

The key to good decisionmaking is having accurate information, and this legislation will provide my son Copeland and all of the other students of northeast Georgia with the best possible data that they and their parents can use to select the right postsecondary education paths for them.

I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this bill, and I would like to thank the gentleman from Indiana for his leadership. The nature in which we bring this forward is a positive solution for our country and is a positive solution for the families looking at this decision of higher education.

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