Oregon paraeducator Laura Warren is still reelingwith joy, with astonishment, and with deep relief. Early this year, she learned that a mountain of student debt, nearly $138,000, had been lifted from her shoulders.
Warren had borrowed decades earlier from the federal government to help pay for her childrens college education.
I paid and I paid and I paid, for years and years and years, she says. Were talking, holy cow, my youngest just had his 20th high school reunion! Its been a long time!
I was convinced I was going to die with this debt. Because, in my lifetime, I couldnt possibly pay it off, says Warren, president of the Lebanon Education Support Professionals Association (LESPA).
But then Warren received that unbelievable email. An…
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