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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 10:45 PM
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bush CUT Pell grants; exactly as Kerry said
Revised Financial Aid Formula Will Cut Pell Grants to Students
http://www.acenet.edu/hena/readArticle.cfm?articleID=124

Bush Freezes Federal College Scholarship, or Pell Grant
Just as college tuition is rising and the buying power of grants continues to erode, President Bush has frozen the maximum Pell Grant at $4,050 in his FY 2005 education budget. This is the 3rd year in a row that Bush has frozen or cut the maximum Pell Grant.

http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/pellgrantsummary.html

Leaves 99 percent of Pell Recipients Behind with ‘Expanded’ Pell Program

As part of his 21st Century Jobs initiative, President Bush announced an increase of up to $1,000 in the maximum grant for Pell recipients who take challenging high school coursework. What the President failed to mention is that he’s capped his plan so that less than 1 percent of all Pell recipients, and less than three-tenths of 1 percent all of all college students, would benefit.

Bush Administration Reduces College Grants
http://home.earthlink.net/~acisney2/id17.html


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