Word: pells
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Senators voted to add more than $120 million to the popular Pell grant program and maintain funding for Guaranteed Student Loans. But under pressure to reduce the federal budget deficit by $36 billion in order to meet Gramm-Rudman targets, lawmakers also recommended that funding of smaller financial aid programs be reduced...
That rapid-fire sequence occupies roughly half of the first act, which is nearly two hours long. The show continues at a pell-mell pace but shifts from incident to soliloquy -- seven characters have long solos, most on a bare stage -- and to grand effects, including a doomed 1832 uprising complete with six tons of barricades, eventually heaped with the bodies of the rebels. The nature of the intended revolution remains more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant...
Many colleges give academic credit for public service. Some, like Brown and Harvard, provide fellowships. Educators and politicians have proposed offering other tangible rewards to volunteers, many of whom are accumulating high tuition debts and feel pressure to earn wages. Rhode Island Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell will introduce a bill this month that would give ROTC- like tuition assistance to students doing community service. Thanks, say some, but no thanks. "Volunteerism should be selfless," explains M. Richard Rose, president of Rochester Institute of Technology. "Ideally you should be like the Lone Ranger. You do a good deed, then you leave...
Funds for Pell grants, which are given to the most needy students, will rise by 17 percent to $4.5 billion under the bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee this week...
...Reagan cuts are not likely to make it through Congress, political observers said. The United States Senate's Committee on Education has proposed increases in Pell grants and the freezing of federal student aid levels...