Word: tuition
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Harvard brings in tuition money, donations and research funding from around the country and the globe that is then spent in Cambridge and Boston. Each year the University draws nearly $1 billion into the city. It also uses Boston's resources--local residents, construction firms and goods...
...need cash to reach beyond the 40% of eligible preschoolers it now serves, most in part-day, part-year programs that don't fit the needs of working mothers. Even Bush's plan to make Title I funds "portable" after three years is too cheap: $1,500 barely covers tuition at some parochial schools and is not enough to test the voucher idea. Little wonder that with all the burdens facing poor schools, word that the G.O.P. front runner wants to take away Title I money feels like another slap. "It irritates us," says Coliseum principal Zoe Jefferson...
When he came to Harvard in 1978, one year of school cost less than $9,000. As tuition skyrocketed in the 1980s, he became a primary advocate for maintaining Harvard's leadership in financial aid, with efforts in development and government advocacy...
...glitch in billing office software led Harvard to bill thousands of students for more tuition money than they actually owe this month...
Term bills sent out two weeks ago billed all students for the entire cost of their tuition--$16,802 a person this semester--without deducting the amount of students' expected financial aid packages...