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Although details vary from department to department, most students on financial aid receive substantial tuition assistance for the first two years of study. Though students still get some aid in their latter years at the University, many must find a new source of income to keep pace...
Moss says students with fewer than four years experience usually have fewer assets, and HBS financial aid will have to carry more of the weight. To complement the need-blind admissions policy, Moss says that the HBS financial aid office makes an effort to accommodate these students. HBS tuition is about $28,000 per year...
Bush would take federal aid from poorly performing public schools and give it to low-income parents to apply toward private-school tuition or tutoring. Like other voucher proponents, Bush argues that his plan would force schools to improve by making them compete for families' money, just as colleges must do. But Bush has stopped using the V word, saying he supports "opportunity scholarships." That euphemism, pollsters say, evokes fewer negative connotations among voters, who have been told by teachers' unions and other opponents of vouchers that they would siphon money away from public education...
Lieberman responded by saying most Americans are better off today than they were eight years ago. He outlined a plan of targeted tax cuts, including a $10,000 college tuition tax credit for the middle class...
Ivan Frishberg, director of the higher-education project for the State Public Interest Research Group in Washington, notes that for the sum Gore proposes to spend on tax breaks for tuition, he could fully fund Pell grants to send low-income students to four years of college--and would have money left over to offer tax credits for interest paid on student loans. These measures would directly help students--who are the signatories to most college debt--rather than their parents. But politicians know that in 1996, only 30% of 18- and 19-year-olds voted, in contrast...