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...move will save the government about $140 million on the BEOG program, which costs about $2.5 million annually, Davis added...
...BEOG cutbacks are the results of recent efforts by the federal government to balance the budget, Susan L. Davis, an economist in the Department of Education's office of planning and budgets, said yesterday...
While Grove City was getting no direct federal aid, its students were receiving some $618,000 a year total in individual loans and $110,000 in Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOG). Unless Form 639A was filled out and returned, warned HEW, the Government would cut off all that money. Given such a threat, Grove City College and four students sued to block the HEW action...
Last week G.C.C. won the case. Pittsburgh Federal District Court Judge Paul Simmons ruled that the loans are not Government aid to the college, since students (or parents) ultimately pay them back. As to BEOG money, while it does go to the college, Simmons ruled that the Government has no legal right to penalize individual students as "a remedy for coercing the college." In perhaps the unkindest cut of all, Simmons declared HEW guilty of bad forms. Number 639A technically should not be used to check up on Title IX compliance, said he, because it contains a passage about sexual...
...bill also expands eligibility for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants to include students with adjusted family incomes up to $25,000. The previous ceiling for receiving BEOG grants was $13,000 a year in adjusted family income...