Word: pelle
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...Bush administration had argued for a smaller increase because, as the economy slows, the DOE predicts more people will enroll in school—and put pressure on the program’s budget. The larger $250 increase in maximum Pell awards will cost an estimated extra $700 million, about a 10 percent increase over the program’s current cost...
Maximum awards to undergraduates through the federal government’s Pell grants program would increase by $250 to $4,000 per year under a provision passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives...
...boost in the cap on Pell grants is significantly larger than the $100 increase President Bush had proposed earlier this year in his education budget...
...Department of Education (DOE) awards Pell grants to about 4 million undergraduates each year, based on their families’ financial need and the cost of the colleges they attend...
...increase in the Pell grant is actually a wonderful bit of news for students nationwide, particularly for students who are attending institutions that don’t have a lot of institutional financial aid,” said Harvard’s Director of Financial Aid Sally C. Donahue. “For students who are at less well-endowed institutions, the Pell grant might be their only form of grant money...