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Education
No, there is not a workaround for your daughter to claim the college tuition. Since you are claiming your daughter as a dependent then she cannot claim the education credit on her taxes. The tuition credit goes to the party claiming the exemption (dependent). Since you are claiming your daughter you can claim the college tuition/expenses for your daughter on your return. This link talks about the requirements for you to claim your daughter on your tax return Dependent Requirements.
As for the funds she received from her 529 Plan, you can only claim college tuition/expenses on the amount that exceeds the distribution from the 519 Plan.
Funds distributed from a 529 Plan, will be reported by the bank on a Form 1099-Q. The 1099-Q is sent to the owner/recipient of the 529 Plan funds. The Form 1099-Q is to be reported as income if they were not used to pay qualified college tuition/expenses. If the amount reported on the 1099-Q were used to cover qualified college tuition/expenses you do not need to report the income. If the amount exceeds the amount of college tuition/ expenses then the excess needs to be reported as other income on your 1040.
Here is an article that talks about What is IRS Form 1099-Q.