Word: pell
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...Administration that tried to cut funds for Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, state block grants, Guaranteed Student Loans and virtually every other federal education program draws lessons from the 65-page report that include the need for consistent school discipline policies, "hard work" on the part of students, rigorous textbooks, and regular homework. Translation: obey rules and do your homework. Nobody is disputing these values; but they should not be a substitute for instituting programs. And if this is the theory behind the practice, it seems a poor cover-up for cutting federally funded programs--especially those...
...Gramm-Rudman bill, passed in December 1985, could have forced Congress to implement budget cutting measures which would have struck 500,000 students from the Pell Grant system, which helps subsidize college educations, and disqualified 600,000 students from receiving federally guaranteed loans...
John McGivaren is a retired Navy pilot who found Freeport a quiet village when he moved here in 1977. Two years ago, with the pace quickening, Barbara campaigned against pell-mell development and won a seat on the town council. "We experienced a shock," she says. "Where Hathaway (shirts) is was Downs' grocery. That went out of business. Bass (shoes) used to be Freeport Variety, the paper store, and that's where you met your neighbor." Freeport has been gentrified, she says, by stores too pricey for her constituents. Yet, she confesses, "I'll tell you what...
About 50 percent of students at Harvard receive funds through programs like Pell Grants and guaranteed student loans (GSL), which are alloted under the bill...
...Reagan Administration's budget proposal sets a $4000 cap on aid to individual students, eliminates guaranteed student, eliminates student loans for students whose family incomes exceed $32.500, and prohibits Pell Grants and other forms of aid to students whose family incomes exceed...