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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Fostering Adoption to Further Student Achievement Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the definition of independent student, for purposes of the financial need analysis to establish student aid eligibility, to individuals who were adopted from the foster care system when they were 13 years of age or older.</p>]]></text>
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