Selective Service: Ohio’s outdated barrier to student aid

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Ohio Capital-Journal

Despite bipartisan efforts to expand federal student aid eligibility, Ohio imposes further restrictions on state-based funds. Male students must register for Selective Service to be eligible. The requirement that men ages 18-25 to register for the draft during peacetime goes back to the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. Although suspended in the mid-1970s, []