Democrats Drop Plan To Make Pell Grant an Entitlement

By Mark Pitsch

WASHINGTON--Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee have abandoned an attempt to make Pell Grants an entitlement, and have exacted support for a pilot direct-loan program from the panel's leading Republicans.

Those decisions pave the way for floor consideration as early as this week of legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, which governs student financial-aid programs.

HR 4471, introduced last week by Representative William D. Ford, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the House committee, replaces HR 3553,...

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