Sen. Lamar Alexander defended his plan to scrap the Free Application for Federal Student Aid before a skeptical crowd of financial-aid administrators on Monday, telling them that the lengthy form is beyond repair.
In a speech at the annual conference of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators here, Mr. Alexander, a Republican of Tennessee, described his plan to replace the application, known as the Fafsa, with a postcard seeking just two pieces of information: family size and income.
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