Topic: Pell Grants
Obama says students, community colleges to benefit from loan changes he signed into lawBigger grants for college students who need them. Relaxed payment terms for students with loans. More money for community colleges and historically black institutions. The law that President Barack ...
Obama signs law that wraps up health care bill, overhauls federal loan programFinalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out ...
More needy college students will have access to bigger Pell Grants, and future borrowers of government loans will have an easier time repaying them, under a vast overhaul of higher education aid that Congress passed Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama. ...
Thanks to health care, banks on verge of losing student lending businessPresident Barack Obama's health care success has an intended side effect: Attached to the fast-track package of health care fixes is an overhaul of college assistance programs that would cost private ...
House passes increased college aid for students in need; ends reliance on private lendersRiding the coattails of a historic health care vote, the House on Sunday also passed a broad reorganization of college aid that affects millions of students and moves President ...
Student loan rewrite, tacked on to health care, could give Obama another domestic winWith health care dominating House action, President Barack Obama was looking for another domestic policy victory Sunday — passage of a vast rewrite of college aid for needy students. ...
Lawmakers trim student aid package now linked to health care billCongressional Democrats on Thursday trimmed their original student loan plans, reduced spending for community colleges, and eliminated early childhood money from a broad rewrite of a college aid bill piggybacked on to ...
Health care plan could also help resurrect college aid planCongressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill, giving both Obama administration priorities a better chance of passage. The student loan measure ...
More head to school, while Pell Grant program faces $18 billion shortfallAn unexpected surge in college enrollment has created an $18 billion shortfall in the Pell Grant program, the biggest in its history. An administration official told The Associated Press the program ...
AP Impact: For-profit colleges reaping rewards of surge in government aid to poor studentsStudents aren't the only ones benefiting from the billions of new dollars Washington is spending on college aid for the poor. An Associated Press analysis shows surging proportions of ...
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