GOP Plan Would Increase Size of Pell Grants
Washington
Poor college students would receive larger federal financial-aid packages under a plan offered last week by House Republicans that Democrats contend could divert money from K-12 initiatives.
The plan calls for increasing the maximum annual Pell Grant award by $400, to $3,525, during the 1999-2000 school year as well as raising funding for campus-based student-aid programs, said Rep. Bill Goodling, R-Pa., the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
"Across the nation, there is a crying need for [college] grants," Mr. Goodling said...
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