Washington update.

Provides Washington, D.C. news briefs on education for the week ending February 27, 1998. How Carrie L. Billy, a lawyer with a group that lobbies for American Indian higher education, was sworn in as the first director of the new White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities; How college students and professional students go into debt to finance their education, according to the General Accounting Office report; Other briefs.