California colleges urge students to fill out financial aid applications as deadline looms

California Community Colleges are urging students to submit their financial aid applications by Sept. 3, as federal financial aid applications are still down by more than 40,000 submissions.

When the Department of Education released an overhaul of the federal aid application for the first time in more than 40 years, the goal was to make it easier for students to apply and qualify for college financial aid.

What followed was a bureaucratic nightmare, leading to more than 30 issues...