Word: pelle
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--The tax and budget legislation that President Clinton signed into law on Tuesday includes $40 billion in tax breaks for college students and their families over the next five years, representing the largest change in federal higher education assistance since the establishment of the student loan and Pell Grant programs three decades...
...problem of defending art in the political arena is more complicated than just a case of accentuating the positive. Even great advocates of the arts, such as Senator Claiborne Pell, warned that one should "speak softly" in defense of the arts. The fear is that the public interest in the arts rests on very slim footing indeed, and that by arguing to vigorously, this weakness will become exposed. This is not an illfounded fear. Pell, of all people, should know...
...Pell retired this January after 36 years in the Senate. He was mainly responsible for the Pell grants and the creation of the national endowments for the arts and for the humanities. In a New York Times interview in December, the Senator revealed just how slim the footing for the endowments was in 1965. Pell spoke of conversations with Jacqueline Kennedy, who thought that the United States should have a minister of culture like France. Apparently President Kennedy was agreeable, but not too concerned. Pell went on to stress the importance of specific personalities in the creation of the endowments...
...those who would go to college anyway. Lawrence Gladieux, an analyst at the College Board, agrees. "It is tax relief, but it's not effective in closing gaps in educational opportunity," he says. Sensitive to that charge, Clinton at the last minute tacked on a substantial increase in Pell grants, which pay college costs for some 3.7 million of America's neediest students. But critics are worried too that getting more people into college will lower education standards at public institutions, which spend more on each student than they collect in tuition and don't have big endowments to fall...
...Clinton has included in his budget a tax credit of up to $1,500 per year for two years of college education provided that students maintain a 'B' average (which is not such a difficult hurdle here, at least). In addition, Clinton has pledged to increase the funding of Pell grants, which provide assistance to needy students, so that each recipient gets $3,000, an increase of over $300 per student. Also, Clinton proposes to add $27 million per year for federal college work-study jobs, a substantial increase which will benefit working students...