http://www.thinkprogress.org/
Pitiful Pell Grants
President Bush said:
"And we will make it easier for Americans to afford a college
education, by increasing the size of Pell Grants."
FACT:
"But in the 2004-05 school year, about half of the current Pell
recipients will get smaller grants or no grant at all."
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/10/10/loc_pellgrants10.html
FACT:
"Federal education officials recently amended how they calculate
families’ eligibility for Pell grants, the backbone of federal
financial aid to needy college students...That revision will bump up
the share families are expected to pay, according to the American
Council on Education, which represents about half the nation’s
colleges and universities."
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/10/10/loc_pellgrants10.html
FACT:
"The change... will eliminate almost 90,000 students from the Pell
program - and will reduce Pell awards to another 1.3 million students,
the council says."
http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/02/4200806e9e1f3
FACT:
"Despite soaring college costs, [Pell Grants have] been stuck at
$4,050 for three years. The American Association of Community Colleges
characterizes the Pell grant freeze as ‘a severe blow’ to students
from low-income families at a time of declining state and local
support for public higher education."
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/bush.pell.grant.ap/
FACT:
Though President Bush recently called for raising the Pell Grant by
$100 in each of the next five years, the announcement is still "shy of
his pledge during the 2000 presidential campaign to raise the maximum
award to $5,100."
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/bush.pell.grant.ap/
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